New Samsung 1 TB HDD Uses Only Two Platters

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Newegg had 2 Samsung 1.5TB 5400rpm for $200 deal a few days ago. It also uses 500GB platters.

On another note, I can’t believe I paid $190 per drive for Seagate’s craptacular 7200.11 1.5TB drive that went on sale for $85 a month after I bought two.

Now I only buy Asian brands and WD.
 
[citation][nom]Pei-chen[/nom]Newegg had 2 Samsung 1.5TB 5400rpm for $200 deal a few days ago. It also uses 500GB platters.On another note, I can’t believe I paid $190 per drive for Seagate’s craptacular 7200.11 1.5TB drive that went on sale for $85 a month after I bought two.Now I only buy Asian brands and WD.[/citation]

I can't believe you bought a Seagate.
 
[citation][nom]amnotanoobie[/nom]Hey, the 7200.11 weren't really that bad, mine was good until I rma'd it. * My 7200.7 and 7200.8 are still kicking w/o any bad sectors up to now.[/citation]Seagate used to be a great brand, through the 7200.9's, but the .10 and .11 scare me with all the firmware errors, dead drives, bad blocks, and mediocre performance even when they work. Now, my WD Caviar Blacks haven't given me a hiccup since I got them.
 
[citation][nom]FlayerSlayer[/nom]Seagate used to be a great brand, through the 7200.9's, but the .10 and .11 scare me with all the firmware errors, dead drives, bad blocks, and mediocre performance even when they work. Now, my WD Caviar Blacks haven't given me a hiccup since I got them.[/citation]

Agreed! I have a secondary computer made out of spare parts; the HDD is a 120 GB sata 7200.7 and it is working flawlessly ever since I bought it in 2006.

But after reading all about Seagate's recent troubles I went with a 640 GB Western Digital for my main computer last year. AS of today it is working perfectly!
 
I have yet to have a sata Seagate drive to fail on me. I have 7 seagate drives around my apartment. some are brand new some are 2 to 3 years old and not a fail. I deal with seagate because that is what my work stocks and i do see a few drives come back for rma's
 
Gotta love samsung drives, the F1 series kicked ass and now the F3 series will too. I still have a 500GB F1 around here, idles at 15c and loads at 26c, much better than any HDD I've ever seen.
 
I did have a Seagate sata drive die on me. Fortunately, it was part of raid 1 mirror, and the warranty replacement dropped in without a hiccup. Just made me nervous for about 4 days while I limped along with only one drive. But my WD drives are quieter.
 
I'll personally never buy a Samsung drive again in my life. In my experience Samsung drives = fail.

I'll wait for WD to come out with higher density drive platters
 
[citation][nom]buzznut[/nom]30% faster? Why, because 1/3 less platters? I am skeptical, but if they are really that much faster I will get one.[/citation]

Yes, because in this case less platters means more data in less space; i.e., the aerial density is higher. That means the heads won't have to travel so much to fetch nearby data, thus making the disk faster.


[citation][nom]silversurfernhs[/nom]Can someone tell me of any, or why there are no single platter HDDs? Just curious.[/citation]

There are. For example, the 640 GB Western Digital I have is comprised of two 320 GB platters. They also sell a 320 GB model - with just one platter.

They won't probably release 500 GB single platter just yet because the price for such higher aerial density probably outdoes the benefits for now.
 
That's all good and dandy that it's on two platters.... but samsung hard drives are junk.

I got one that read 78% health in "HDD Health" out of the box. My 4 year old hard drive wasn't even at 85% yet.

Don't buy Samsung HDDs unless you like backing up data and recovering it often.
 
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