How fast Spinpoint F1 are?

[johnspack]

I currently have 3 Seagate 7200.10 hds in raid 0, I've heard the F1 drives are fast.. I was going to use a 750gig F1 as a backup/storage drive, but maybe it's as fast or faster in throughput as my array? I don't see terribly impressive numbers using my onboard raid. Just a wandering thought...

 

[Fitseries3]

a separate raid controller will always perform better than onboard.

my 1tb seagate 7200.11 with 32mb cache does 113mb/s average with 194mb/s burst

but my

2x WD raptor x 150's in raid 0 do 184mb/s average with 2481mb/s burst(intel ich10r)

my point is... raid will almost always be faster than any single drive. i have heard that the sammys do pretty well and outperform a single raptor but i cant speak form experience. i know someone here on TPU will speak up soon about your question.

 

[WhiteLotus]

I did hear they are the fastest drive, but faster than your RAID setup i wouldn't like to guess.

 

[GSG-9]

I currently have 3 Seagate 7200.10 hds in raid 0, I've heard the F1 drives are fast.. I was going to use a 750gig F1 as a backup/storage drive, but maybe it's as fast or faster in throughput as my array? I don't see terribly impressive numbers using my onboard raid. Just a wandering thought...

Your Seagates are faster. I had 7200.11's in raid for a year and just 'upgraded' to a single F1 1Tb and a single 7200.11 500Gb drive, I dont have my Sandra Everest benchmarks from the old drive, but the new ones are in fact slower, Its not to much slower but a single F1 is slower than my 7200.11's in raid (I also used an Intel ICH10R Raid Controller)

 

[oli_ramsay]

The 750GB F1 models only use 250GB platters x3, while the 1TB models use 333GB x3 platters. I own the 750GB drive and it's fast enough for what I use it for (media storage like games films etc). I get 95~MB/s average while the 333GB platter models get about ~115MB/s.

It's a great drive and very cheap, silent and cool. But if you want speed then go for a drive with 333GB platters, even the new WD Caviar (I think that's it's name) 640GB has 2x320Gb platters and will outperform the 750GB F1.

 

[wolf2009]

The 750GB F1 models only use 250GB platters x3, while the 1TB models use 333GB x3 platters. I own the 750GB drive and it's fast enough for what I use it for (media storage like games films etc). I get 95~MB/s average while the 333GB platter models get about ~115MB/s.

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750gb f1 also uses 333x3 platters, but some capacity on 3rd platter is disabled .

 

[oli_ramsay]

750gb f1 also uses 333x3 platters, but some capacity on 3rd platter is disabled .

Even though some website (I think it's tweaktown) did a review and said to be the case, it's actually false.

This has been discussed in another threa and the performance of the 750GB drives are quite a bit less than the 1TB models, that's why they cost a lot less comparitively.

Here's what I get with it anyway:

EDIT: Found this review showing the speed difference between the 750GB and the 1TB:

 

[johnspack]

Darn, looks like I should of gone WD 640, but I guess the 750 F1 will make a good speedy backup drive. I guess I'll have to turn off AM? I don't mind if it's loud.

 

[johnspack]

Just checked hd tach, 94.7MB/s av 172.9MB/s peak, pretty sad!

Is there any reason 128k chunks (my max) would be slower than less?