Best 1t harddrive on the market?

[Deks]

Agreed. Think I might give one a go.

I just bought the WD1001FALS. Fantastic drive. With a 5 year guarantee I dont care it was a few quid more. I can't put a price on the peace of mind that my data is as safe as possible. I'm sure the Sammy F1's are good but I was put off by a few negative comments about bad drives and motherboard compatiblities.

Deks

 

[Strife212]

Caviar Black

 

[Strife212]

Double Post

 

[badbob]

Looking into two of these. Performance isn't priority - for a NAS.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-158-WD&tool=3

Better option than the Samsung F1 I guess?

 

[The Asgard]

Looking into two of these. Performance isn't priority - for a NAS.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-158-WD&tool=3

Better option than the Samsung F1 I guess?

After 3 faulty F1's that's the replacement drive I have gone for.

Don't get me wrong if you get a good F1 there great. I still have one that's working well.

 

[Kalsius]

Everyone always says you latch on to the negatives so another +1 for the F1's. Currently have 4 in a RAID 5 with no issues, planning on buying another 8 over the coming months to bump it up to nearly 9TB, not had a single issue yet.

 

[The Asgard]

Everyone always says you latch on to the negatives so another +1 for the F1's. Currently have 4 in a RAID 5 with no issues, planning on buying another 8 over the coming months to bump it up to nearly 9TB, not had a single issue yet.

All I can say is there must be a bad batch going around. 3 failures within a month with the same problem is pretty poor. Have you run a full surface scan recently to check for bad blocks?

EStool V2.11

 

[superfly]

for performance the segate .11 series are the best i think, but for price the samsungs are great value, i have the 750, got it for 120 6 months ago, been happy ever since

 

[marscay]

from the amount of dead F1's you see reported everywhere i wouldn't have great confidence using them in a raid NAS setup.

for that the western digital GP RE2 drives were good value awhile ago but they've since shot up in price...it's no wonder why

 

[joeyjojo]

All I can say is there must be a bad batch going around. 3 failures within a month with the same problem is pretty poor. Have you run a full surface scan recently to check for bad blocks?

EStool V2.11

Linky for samsung drive tool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html

The disclaimers are a little strong no? They make it sound like the check will try it's best to destroy your data. Hopefully not?

 

[Dicehunter]

Western Digital Caviar Black is awesome i have one myself for storing my games music etc...

 

[farooqm]

Samsung F1, had it for a fair months now and running sweet. Would highly recommend.

 

[S_D]

Is this just for data storage or for apps and OS too? If it's just the former then get the WD Green which run whisper quiet and use less power too...

 

[ps3ud0]

Hows the performace compare to the old AAKS and the newer RE3s?

Thinking of whacking my 500Gb AAKS into caddy for backup but want to make sure its replacement is actually a step up. 1Tb just seems worthwhile now.

Thanks

ps3ud0

 

[AbsenceJam]

Another test with the F1 and Black Edition:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15363/

So not worth it.

 

[Strife212]

The topic title does say best drive on the market and thats the black

 

[EsaT]

Hows the performace compare to the old AAKS and the newer RE3s?

Don't remember was YS code for RAID version of AAKS... in any case 1TB Black beats it clearly:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/be...&devID_0=368&devID_1=354&devID_2=316&devCnt=3
But 1TB Seagate still manages to loose againts that much older/lower data density drive...

 

[Major_Disaster]

WD Black

 

[chris.dante]

spinpoint

 

[helmutcheese]

I believe the Black and RE3 are the same speed (think The Mod here stated that too, though not 100% sure)