WD's 3TB Internal HD

[brianzion]

I just deleted an e-mail from Microcenter pushing this hard drive. When WD pushes out a Caviar Black, I "might" consider one.

Though I currently have a 1TB, a 750, and 500gig drive installed in my system, neither one of them is at 50 percent capacity

most drives do not contain the specified amount even a 1G flash drive i no the reason but cant remember at the moment

 

[Win7User512]

I just deleted an e-mail from Microcenter pushing this hard drive. When WD pushes out a Caviar Black, I "might" consider one.

Though I currently have a 1TB, a 750, and 500gig drive installed in my system, neither one of them is at 50 percent capacity

most drives do not contain the specified amount even a 1G flash drive i no the reason but cant remember at the moment

When it is formatted, you lose a small amount of disk space to the information stored about formatting. The drive has to know how to store the data.

 

[brianzion]

I just deleted an e-mail from Microcenter pushing this hard drive. When WD pushes out a Caviar Black, I "might" consider one.

Though I currently have a 1TB, a 750, and 500gig drive installed in my system, neither one of them is at 50 percent capacity

most drives do not contain the specified amount even a 1G flash drive i no the reason but cant remember at the moment

When it is formatted, you lose a small amount of disk space to the information stored about formatting. The drive has to know how to store the data.

thanks i found this site which is a good read
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006208/data/device-harddrives.php

 

[brianzion]

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

 

[LiquidSnak]

I've had good experiences with all 3 of my samsung drives

 

[brianzion]

I've had good experiences with all 3 of my samsung drives

The F3 operates at 7200RPM with offerings of up to 1TB data storage capacity by using two 500GB per platter disks. As well as meeting datacentre requirements for addition storage to meet rising demand and increasing performance needs, the new drives also deliver high-performance with lower power for desktop computers and servers.

never used a two platter

 

[brianzion]

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

it looks ok in the specs

1TB HDD Holds:
Up to 284,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 24,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 120 hours of HD video
Main Specifications
Capacity: 1TB
Interfaces: SATA
Transfer Rate: 3 Gb/s (Max)
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Buffer: 32MB
Features:
MAX.500GB Formatted Capacity Per Disk
Serial ATA 3.0Gbps Interface Support
Improved recording stability over temperature with PMR
Advanced dynamic FOD control for best data integrity
Intelligent compensation of external disturbance
SATA Native Command Queuing Feature
Device Initiated SATA Power Management
Rotational vibration sensor
Environment friendly product with RoHS compliance
Improved performance with dual-ARM based firmware
ATA S.M.A.R.T. Compliant
ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature
ATA 48-bit Address Feature
ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature
NoiseGuard
SilentSeek

 

[LiquidSnak]

I would imagine that there is a head on each side of the platter to accommodate that. The lower power comes from less rotating weight.

 

[brianzion]

i got to choose now out of
Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB internal Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache 7200RPM

Western Digital Caviar 1TB SATAII 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Green Internal Hard Drive
(d)
1TB HDD Holds:
Up to 284,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 24,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 120 hours of HD video
Capacity: 1 TB
Interface Type: Serial ATA-300
Data Transfer Rate: 300 MBps
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Buffer Size: 32 MB

 

[LiquidSnak]

I would go for the Samsung, that sounds like a nice drive.

 

[brianzion]

yes i thought that samsung, i already use the other WD at the moment came with the pc works well i have never had problems with it i have to say be good to try another and they are a good price (both under £50)
just want another internal drive that will work ok my friend said the samsung would be a bit more noisy because of the 2 platter

 

[Everlong]

Hi there
Wasn't a 25 MB disk drive meant to be MORE than enough storage that ANYBODY could ever want or use. Was it IBM or even a well known Mr Gates who said this when PC's first came out into the general public domain.

Not sure who said this but in the early days of PC's this amount of storage was considered as almost unrealistically high.

I see now it won't be too long before a 1PB - 1 PETABYTE drive appears (1PB = 1000 TB or 1000 * 1000 GB).

Cheers
jimbo

There's no proof Bill Gates said that, and it's such a dogmatic and short sighted thing to say. Though it's just like Ken Olsen saying nobody needs a personal computer...

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Times change, business needs change, personal needs change, etc..

I mean, e-commerce is HUGE. It's the main reason why the Internet took off so fast!
People become very ADHD which is why they have over 10,000 songs and 4,000 videos on their computer, not to mention old caches they refuse to clean out which over time can take up several GBs of hard drive space...

 

[Dr Shambles]

Times change, business needs change, personal needs change, etc..

I mean, e-commerce is HUGE. It's the main reason why the Internet took off so fast!
People become very ADHD which is why they have over 10,000 songs and 4,000 videos on their computer, not to mention old caches they refuse to clean out which over time can take up several GBs of hard drive space...

How does having 10,000 songs make you ADHD? I have around 30,000 because I like music, not because I chew my ear and chase my tail in a padded room.

Btw how do you clean out old caches? Is that just a disk defrag?

 

[s31]

the samsung drive is good if you need it for OS drive and cant afford a SSD or would like to access your files quicker

if it's for storage/backup get the green drive

 

[tw33k]

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

Here's mine: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...our-hard-drive-performance-47.html#post730594

It's a great drive.

 

[mickey megabyte]

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

Here's mine: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...our-hard-drive-performance-47.html#post730594

It's a great drive.

+1 i've got one too - you won't regret it.

 

[brianzion]

thanks all i will try the samsung

 

[Benjamin Hall]

Btw how do you clean out old caches? Is that just a disk defrag?

No, you gotta dump the cache.
You can do it in C Cleaner quite easily
or you can do it the long way with CMD

 

[brianzion]

Hitachi GST
Hitachi Deskstar 0S02573 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB

any feedback on this drive please