Wednesday, January 28th 2009
Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB HDD Tested
Korean silicon giant Samsung is ready with its 1.5TB high-capacity desktop hard drive, under the EcoGreen F2 series. The drive is labeled HD154UI. With this drive Samsung looks to focus on storage rather than performance, giving this drive a spindle speed of 5400 rpm, aided by a 32MB cache. This is where the company gets to brandish energy-efficiency, thus living up to its EcoGreen brand name.
Despite these specifications, the drive manages a decent set of scores on the HD Tune benchmark, churning out read/write speeds of around 105 MB/s sequential, and around 48/72 MB/s random access. It has a rated average seek-time of 8.9ms. This Samsung drive comes in the standard 3.5" form-factor. It uses the standard SATA II interface. The drive features some proprietary acoustic management features such as SilentSeek and NoiseGuard. It will be available in Japan later this week at a price of ¥11,580 (around US $130).
Source:
Akiba PC Hotline
Despite these specifications, the drive manages a decent set of scores on the HD Tune benchmark, churning out read/write speeds of around 105 MB/s sequential, and around 48/72 MB/s random access. It has a rated average seek-time of 8.9ms. This Samsung drive comes in the standard 3.5" form-factor. It uses the standard SATA II interface. The drive features some proprietary acoustic management features such as SilentSeek and NoiseGuard. It will be available in Japan later this week at a price of ¥11,580 (around US $130).
13 Comments on Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB HDD Tested
This is why I don't like 5400RPM drives.
It would be Ok for a storage drive, but nothing more. I wouldn't even begin to think about installing an OS on it or running software off of it. It would even be a pain running software that accesed data off of it in real time, it would be a real drag to try and edit raw video stored on the drive in an editing program.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB
€129 = $170
Not everyone lives in the US.
Hell, I don't need 500GB for my windows install, but it is on a 500GB drive, the jump from 500GB to 1TB or 1.5TB or even 2TB isn't that big from 500GB.
And how many people keep their game installs on a different partition from their OS? 50GB for OS, 250GB for game installs, and the rest for storage. It isn't a crazy concept just because you don't do it.
that means this should be good, nice EE too
might pick up a small drive for my OS i think