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I vote WDC Black for the 5 year warranty.

EDIT: I've got 4 of these coming as soon as they're in stock. For me, it's all about cache, speed and warranty.
 
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djisas said:
Interesting so many samsung supporters...

inferKNOX, it happened with me before, getting smart warning from a segate drive, dont remember if the old or new generation thought, but indeed my wd drives show better reliability stats on smart using hard drive inspector...
Click to expand...

A friend of mine reported having Samsung F1s have an either 100% or practically so, whilst for both him and I the Seagate 7200.12s stay at 95% in Hard Drive Inspector.
Another reason to get F3s is that they're actually cheaper than the SG and WD drives on average (or at least that's what I had seen).;)
 
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The shit hit the fan today!!
Ironically, the hdd that was to be replaced decided to die one me without any warning, one day works, the other doesnt, so i went to my favorite store and bought me a brand new seagate 7200.12 in which i just installed the window, but now im running a complete restore from Sunday's backup (good thing i had it backing up shit automatically...

So whats lost??
From c: nothing, from the other partitions shitty backups of backups and most of the installed games...
Whats lost probably the only important thing was my borderlands saves that where on the game dir because the shitty game could not save anywhere else, i had finished the game and first dlc, was starting on the 3rd dlc, so i either give up on the game or "borrow" some lvl 40+ save from someone and keep having fun, or wast another 48+h playing it allover...

Damn, i wanted to install the new drive and leave the old one as a backup of everything...
And i was thinking on actually buying the new drive today...

Ill send the old one for rma and see if they send me a brand new one, it would be great to get a new model...
 
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What about the WD6402AAEX? 640GB WDC Black drive with 64MB cache, SATA 6.0Gb/s and advanced format.
 
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i have one of those, well an older version...
But that one isnt single plate...

What u guys think of the 1TB F3??
They are 20$ cheaper than the wd black, ppl seem to like those...
 
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djisas said:
i have one of those, well an older version...
But that one isnt single plate...

What u guys think of the 1TB F3??
They are 20$ cheaper than the wd black, ppl seem to like those...
Click to expand...

i'm a big fan of the samsung F1's, F3 (non green) and F4's
 
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f4 already??
Havent seen those yet...
 
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My WD Black is really noisy, not something I would ever buy again. 4 year old 500GB Samsung Spinpoint T on the other hand is still going strong and quiet in my HTPC. The 320GB Samsung F4 looks like a really nice primary drive and it's cheap too.

Samsung F4 320GB.
 
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Im trying to get rid of 2 320Gb barracudas old generation, i know they can die, so i only use them as back up for now...

Incidentally i had one 80GB IDE 2.5 Hitachi die on me a couple days ago, and i had bought a 320GB WD to replace it before, the problem is i bought a sata disk for an ide interface and the disk died before i could replace it...

Thats the 3rd one to die

I think i might start to move on to samsung, i wont buy Seagate for my next TB drive, thats for sure...
 
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Well, i just went and bought myself an 1Tb f3, its connected to an external eSATA dock right now backing up nearly 1TB of critical data, including my precious mp3 collection...
The performance numbers are as follows:
Copying docs and images to the first partition, mostly files from a few KB to a few MB, max stable transfer speed around 53MB/s, copying thousands of small files is quite a job...
Copying mp3 and other audio files only speed goes up to 85-87MB/s thats better...
Copying videos (part of my anime collection), files ranging from 100MB up to 500MB or even more with movies speed goes up to a max of 103MB/s, good figures for big files...
It is nearly silent, but when its seating right next to the screen without any case i can still hear it working, but inside a case should be silent...

The disk packaging is the best i have seen on any drive, it features a plastic case with an instruction manual supplied and even screws, all this for less 30€ compared with a WD black...
And the good thing is the drive not being made in china, where all my dead drives where made...
 
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