Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB In Stock

Slackworth · 6 Oct 2010 at 23:42

For speed then the F4 rules but F3 offers better £/GB.

Arthalen · 7 Oct 2010 at 07:28

Mmmm interesting set of benchmarks on Toms. If I was building a 3 disk or larger RAID array, F4 drive would be the way to go.

I can't really use the £/GB ratio as a valid argument tbh, about to by into dual SSDs with a 1TB drive for pagefile/scratch disk/backup drive

Stonedofmoo · 7 Oct 2010 at 09:26

So it's like all these other high density 7200rpm drives. High transfer rates in exchange for horrible seak times and IO performance.

tommytinkle · 7 Oct 2010 at 09:32

Will be interesting to see some raid reviews of this drive. May well help me decide or rather push me towards SSD for boot and game software.

Lanz · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:50

My 320GB F1 has failed recently, whats the chances of getting one of these back as RMA?

clocka · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:04

nice to see a smaller f4 drive, hope they release a 640/667gb version i bet that would be under £35.

MouthBoy · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:32

Stonedofmoo said:
So it's like all these other high density 7200rpm drives. High transfer rates in exchange for horrible seak times and IO performance.

Thats a really good point. I mean, I transfer a lot of data about constantly for uni projects and such, so I am liking the high transfer rates of these drives, but I would miss the seak time for random little files...

clocka · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:54

thats why SSD's exist

320GB F4 is the best bang for buck drive pretty much assuming you don't mean GB/£ as obviously the 1.5TB drives are better. But this is the best cheap drive for an O.S.

Duke · 7 Oct 2010 at 17:12

Lanz said:
My 320GB F1 has failed recently, whats the chances of getting one of these back as RMA?

No idea. I would guess you could get an F3 500GB.

hash70 · 8 Oct 2010 at 00:22

got 2

Slackworth · 8 Oct 2010 at 00:50

Thanks for your order

Duke · 8 Oct 2010 at 10:56

Hope mine arrives today. Will post comparison benchmarks with the F1 320GB.

Philtor · 8 Oct 2010 at 11:23

Ordered mine yesterday and it arrived this morning. Great service from OcUK

Won't get it installed until tomorrow but will be worth the wait.

chippy08 · 8 Oct 2010 at 11:50

Still waiting for mine hope it arrives today.

Duke · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:07

Got it and installed. Copied the data from the old one to the new one, results below.

Samsung F1 320GB

Samsung F4 320GB

A nice increase on what was already a quick drive

Philtor · 8 Oct 2010 at 12:10

That's a nice boost indeed

Happy days.

chippy08 · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:18

yes nice boost what programme did you use to copy your drive over to your f4 Duke ?

Duke · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:24

HD Clone (http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html)

Neolink · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:57

The reviews and benchmarks so far are a little disappointing (Except in seq read), I still think I will raid-0 2 of them at some point though

Will be a nice boost from a single old Seagate 7200.10 anyway

Seirrah · 8 Oct 2010 at 21:15

I'm considering getting one of these just for games, which are all Steam downloads (my boot drive is an OCZ 120GB Vertex2). This drive is good at sequential read, but doesn't have an amazing access time, would it be decent for gaming? (map loading etc)

I also have a WD caviar green 1TB which I will be using for media - and have been using for everything up until buying the SSD.

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