Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
I bought one that was DOA, got my money back and bought a WD.:mrgreen:
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
well the F1 terminology has to come in somewhere..
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
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SiM
How can the burst speed be so high?
Stupidly high volume of disk cache along with SATAII. Although over 300mb/s is a bit of a yarn, HDTach probably has a bug somewhere.
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
Personally I feel the HD Tach graph is quite useless (No offence)
My WD RE2-GPs are 5400RPM (I think) but STILL have >100MBps STR. Performance difference compared to my other drives are minimal.
I would be much more concerned about the reliability issue.
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
Is HD Tune any better for gauging performance? as for reliability, ive seen quite a few people mention returning their F1's for something else from another brand...
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
The `hdparm -tT` program for linux is a tad more reliable for raw throughput. It'll provide raw disk access results, as well as cached reads.
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
My guess would be that the second test still had data from the first in cache somewhere, probably in your system memory.
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Thorsson
My guess would be that the second test still had data from the first in cache somewhere, probably in your system memory.
Even though there was a 40 minute gap between tests...
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
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SiM
Even though there was a 40 minute gap between tests...
What were you doing in that 40 minutes?
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Thorsson
What were you doing in that 40 minutes?
Do you really wanna know? :naughty:
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
I've recently replaced by two ageing 74GB Raptors with the 1TB F1 Sammy. The result? A _much_ quiter and faster PC (not that it was particularly slow in the first place)! I've partitioned the Sammy into two 476GB (or thereabouts) partitions.
My Vista WEI score on the HDD is now firmly on 5.9 (the two Raptors only gave a score of 5.6). I know the WEI isn't a great benchmark but it's the one I use for Vista.
Replacing two noisy and hot drives has meant a slightly cooler system too. It's an absolute bargain at under £100.
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
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SiM
Do you really wanna know? :naughty:
No, but my point was, is it something that would flush the cache? Maybe you made yourself a coffee and snack, maybe you were looking at Hexus. This could have left the first test still in memory. You should always reboot on HDD tests to get a clean cache.
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Taz
I've recently replaced by two ageing 74GB Raptors with the 1TB F1 Sammy. The result? A _much_ quiter and faster PC (not that it was particularly slow in the first place)! I've partitioned the Sammy into two 476GB (or thereabouts) partitions.
My Vista WEI score on the HDD is now firmly on 5.9 (the two Raptors only gave a score of 5.6). I know the WEI isn't a great benchmark but it's the one I use for Vista.
Replacing two noisy and hot drives has meant a slightly cooler system too. It's an absolute bargain at under £100.
But haven't there been a number of issues with these drives? There are a lot of unhappy owners on Newegg.
Re: The 1TB Sammy F1 Thread
I think there are so many issues due to how many have been sold in a short space of time.
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Jay
I think there are so many issues due to how many have been sold in a short space of time.
Except that the average rating is 3 eggs. That means as many people are unhappy as are happy.