Spinpoint F4 OMG

spynoodle

spynoodle

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I'm putting together a budget build for a business, and I was checking out the Samsung Spinpoints vs the WD Cav blues and greens. I have a Spinpoint F3 1tb HD103SJ, and it's already friggin ridiculously fast. Now for this business, I need a drive that's >160gb, and fast. I found the new Spinpont F4 320gb:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=samsung_spinpoint-_-22-152-244-_-Product
Then I looked up a bench:
http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/772701-samsung-f4-320gb-hd322gj-benchmarked.html
The first words that came out of my mouth were Holy ****!!!!!!! :eek:
The thing costs 42 bucks, and it's Velociraptor fast!!!!! Has anyone else heard about this thing?
 
I just ordered the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 Model HD322GJ/U 320 gigabyte hard drive yesterday to practice cloning and wiping hard drives. I think I am going to clone my Windows to this hard drive and start using it as one of my primary hard drives if the read speeds are faster than my present Seagate 10th generation drive.
 
fastdude said:
Yes, but i thought it was a "green" drive :eek: :confused:

I just bought a brand new SpinPoint F3 last week.
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Lol, yeah the Spinpoint F4 is probably pretty "green" as well, but DEFINITELY not what WD considers as "green". :) I'm glad I got my Spinpoint F3, though, since I'm probably gonna need the 1tb of storage for HD video clips. The 500gb platters were the main thing that made me want the HD103SJ. I'm guessing that the HD322GJ has half of a 640gb platter. :eek:
2048Megabytes said:
I just ordered the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 Model HD322GJ/U 320 gigabyte hard drive yesterday to practice cloning and wiping hard drives. I think I am going to clone my Windows to this hard drive and start using it as one of my primary hard drives if the read speeds are faster than my present Seagate 10th generation drive.
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Oh yeah, this thing will blow away your Seagate 10th gen. ;)
 
There are two lines of the F4 drives, the 320Gb is an excellent drive that is quite fast (seek times are what limits it against the velociraptors, as those are 10k rpm drives), and then there is the 2TB F4, which is a 5400rpm "green" storage drive.
 
bomberboysk said:
There are two lines of the F4 drives, the 320Gb is an excellent drive that is quite fast (seek times are what limits it against the velociraptors, as those are 10k rpm drives), and then there is the 2TB F4, which is a 5400rpm "green" storage drive.
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I see.... since the Velociraptor spins at 10k rpm and has less of a physical distance to seek across (being 2.5in.), it still dominates at hard drive seek time. Still, if you defrag often enough, that 6ms difference doesn't make as much of a difference as the read transfer rate, right?
 
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spynoodle said:
I see.... since the Velociraptor spins at 10k rpm and has less of a physical distance to seek across (being 2.5in.), it still dominates at hard drive seek time. Still, if you defrag often enough, that 6ms difference doesn't make as much of a difference as the read transfer rate, right?
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Seek time is why SSD's are so fast, as far as overall performance seek time is going to be more important than raw read rate. The exception to that is long sustained transfers of files.
 
bomberboysk said:
Seek time is why SSD's are so fast, as far as overall performance seek time is going to be more important than raw read rate. The exception to that is long sustained transfers of files.
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I think I get it now. Since the raw read rate on a relatively fast drive is already so fast, what matters more is how short of a time it takes for the drive to seek.
 
Well I just got my SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 Model HD322GJ/U hard drive last night. I cloned my Windows XP to this hard drive and I do notice faster boot times. The start up times are about 10 to 15 seconds faster than my Seagate 10th generation drive. Write speeds are also faster on this drive.

Hard drive space is just so large now. I don't know what to do with the 298 gigabytes of hard drive space so I left about 130 gigabytes unformatted :)

Edit: My old hard drive was a 232 gigabyte Seagate Barracuda Model ST3250310AS 10th generation
 
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I can definitely say "Oh My Goodness!" as well. If I use hibernation mode, my Windows XP Service Pack 2 resumes and is at the login screen about 9 seconds after the intial black screen POST and RAM test. The Samsung Spinpoint F4 Model HD322GJ/U 320 gigabyte hard drive has some fast read speeds.
 
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