New Samsung 1 TB HDD Uses Only Two Platters

[Guest]

I was under the impression that the Seagate 7200.12 1TB drives were 2 500GB platters. Yes/No?

 

[TNM]

[citation][nom]steiner666[/nom]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]

WD has had 2 platter 1TB drives out for a couple of months now.
WD10EADS-00M2B0 they are called.
Got one here with me.

This is still sold as a WD10EADS just like the 3 platter version, so you will not find this as a separate model on the WDC web site, but search on the net and you will find more info.

 

[midnightgun]

Samsung could release a 5 gig drive right now and I wouldn't touch it until they clean up their warranty processes.

 

[papasmurf]

I have two 7200.12 500gb barracudas in raid0 they are also single platter, fast as hell, silent, and they've been running flawlessly for 4 months.

 

[marsax73]

I remember back in the 8 gigs days, the WD's were the worst! I remember having DOA on a couple of occasions and a few would die within a year. Now they are considered the standard. My IDE 300 Gig Maxtor is still running! hehe

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[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]
I've had 6 seagate 1tb drives fail (in two different servers) between 15th of january and 3 weeks ago when I went on hollidays. That's what I call durable! in contrast, I've got 2 storage boxes with a total of 28 250gb hitachi drives that've been kicking ass since they were new.