WD Caviar black VS. Samsung F3

They're both pretty close performing drives. I ordered a Samsung F3 1TB 2 days ago, and before buying it I had a quick look at some reviews of the drive around the net, and most of them said that it's a great performing drive for the money, and that in some benchmark tests it outperformed the WD Black. The WD Black also outperformed it in other tests.
I'd have to say that the Black is probably a tiny bit better as far as performance, but for me at least, not better by enough to justify being 50% more expensive than the F3.

... Just gotta wait for my damn F3 to arrive...
 
bomberboysk said:
Yeah, and the 1TB 7200.12's can be had for pretty much the same price as well, newegg generally has either the spinpoint F3 or 7200.12 for $59 after a coupon code or something, the 7200.12's are quite peppy drives with the latest firmware.
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Yeah, I was pretty much choosing between the 1tb Caviar Blue, the HD103SJ, and the 1tb 7200.12. I chose the Samsung partially just for exploration. I've already had a WD for ~5 years, so I already know that they're good, but I wanted to see how Samsung is when it comes to reliability. Plus, the thing's supposedly really quiet and really fast, so I thought that would fit my media center quite nicely. :)
 
My samsung drives died on me

I had a RAID 5 set up with 4 x 1TB Samsung Hard drives. one fine morning, i got a message from my RAID controller saying that 2 of the drives need attention. 1 hour later, 2 of the 4 drives died, simultaneously. Luckily, I was paranoid enough to back up a RAID 5. I RMA's not 2 but 3 of the drives because one of the remaining 2 also started acting up. These hard drives were less then 6 months old. My 1TB WD Caviar Black has more then 10,000 hours of use and is still going strong. It took a lot of use and abuse (constant wiping and reinstalling).

Long story short. If you want RAID, I would not recommend any of the drives you listed. Otherwise, the caviar black is king. In the end, the WD black drive performs a ton better because it has features that others don't (dual processors, StablleTrac, etc). This hard drive handles intense load very well, way better then the hitachi, Seagate (1TB 7200.12) and samsung drives ever did, in my system anyway.

There, I hope that helps.
 
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Nice one man yeah i will probally look into getting a WD caviar black when i run out of space on the seagate barracudas.
 
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