Seagate 7200.11 vs. Samsung F1

PaulieG · May 24, 2008

I've been running an F1 for 2 months. It is the quickest, quietest, and coolest drive I've ever owned..hands down, and I've owned 50+ drives over the last 5 years.

oli_ramsay · May 24, 2008

I also own an F1 and it's great especially 750 GB for only £70.

However the fastest drive I've owned it this one :cool:

DanishDevil · May 24, 2008

That's a lie.

philbrown23 · May 24, 2008

wolf2009 · May 24, 2008

DanishDevil said:
That's a lie.

it may be GIGABYTE's i-RAM drive . not sure though . i think only that drive has crazy speeds like this.

mullered07 · May 24, 2008

wolf2009 said:
it may be GIGABYTE's i-RAM drive . not sure though . i think only that drive has crazy speeds like this.

it is a ramdrive and its not a lie, its just a software program that can use ram as a drive to run programs from similar to the i-drive but done in software, so its not a lie.

back on topic i would go with the wd SE16 640gb and will be myself as soon as i find one in the UK at a good price

oli_ramsay · May 24, 2008

hehe, it's no lie!

I allocated 1 GB of my RAM to be used as a HDD. Was gonna use it as opera's internet cache but the software has stopped working for some reason :confused:

wolf2009 · May 24, 2008

oli_ramsay said:
hehe, it's no lie!

I allocated 1 GB of my RAM to be used as a HDD. Was gonna use it as opera's internet cache but the software has stopped working for some reason

wat soft is it ?

so does this mean if i get 4 GB more RAM to have 8 GB total , i can allocate some GB of RAM to be used as HDD ?

oli_ramsay · May 24, 2008

software is here: http://www.superspeed.com/download/trialversions.php

yea you can allocate as much as you want

It's just a matter of what can you put on the HD to speed things up. Internet cache is the only thing that I can think of.

largon · May 25, 2008

wolf2009 said:
ya samsung f1 750mb drive also has 3 platters , same as their 1 tb drive , but has some GB deactivated on the third platter.

Nope.
It is known 750GB F1 has lower density platters (250GB/platter) that perform worse than those on the 1TB model (320GB/platter).

wolf2009 · May 25, 2008

largon said:
Nope.
It is known 750GB F1 has lower density platters (250GB/platter) that perform worse than those on the 1TB model (320GB/platter).

Nope ur wrong .

750 GB Spinpoint F1 has the same 3 x 334 GB platters as the 1 TB Spinpoint F1 .

Given its use of 334GB platters, you would think Samsung would offer two additional F1 variants to accompany the terabyte model: a 334GB model using a single platter and a two-platter model with 668GB of capacity. And you would be wrong. Instead, Samsung is sticking to the industry-standard capacities embraced by its competitors, extending the F1 down to 750, 500, and 320GB. It's hard to see the rationale behind such a move. Those lower capacities leave a respective 250, 168, and 14GB of unused platter capacity on the table, which strikes us as unnecessarily wasteful.

Thats what techreport has to say on the first page in this review

oli_ramsay · May 25, 2008

It seems crazy to use 3 x 334GB platters on 750GB drives and disabling 250GB. They should just bring out single platter 333GB two platter 666GB and 3 platter 1TB drives.

farlex85 · May 25, 2008

Thats why scratch em all and go for the se16 640. Uses 2 platters, and has tested faster than either, and in some cases faster than the raptor.

wolf2009 · May 25, 2008

oli_ramsay said:
It seems crazy to use 3 x 334GB platters on 750GB drives and disabling 250GB. They should just bring out single platter 333GB two platter 666GB and 3 platter 1TB drives.

ya it seems crazy , but point to note is that is there any hack to enable that extra 250GB and get a 1 TB drive for the price of 750GB ?

DanishDevil · May 25, 2008

oli_ramsay said:
hehe, it's no lie!

I allocated 1 GB of my RAM to be used as a HDD. Was gonna use it as opera's internet cache but the software has stopped working for some reason

It's not a drive. Hence the lie.

largon · May 25, 2008

wolf2009 said:
Nope ur wrong .

750 GB Spinpoint F1 has the same 3 x 334 GB platters as the 1 TB Spinpoint F1 .

Thats what techreport has to say on the first page in this review

This is how 334GB platters perform.
And this is how F1 750GB performs. Obviously techreport is clueless as 750GB has 250GB platters.

oli_ramsay · May 25, 2008

DanishDevil said:
It's not a drive. Hence the lie.

meh

CarolinaKSU · May 25, 2008

edit: I completey messed up my math and 250 per GB is accurate. However, I have already made my purchase and I am extremely excited because the performance of these HDDs is amazing, I can't wait to get them in Raid 0!

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