Posted Friday 6th March 2009 11:59 GMT
thats great news can't wait to order several of these any news of a release date?, I have been so happy with their 1TB model.
very reliable drives, so expecting the same quality from Samsung, compared to Seagate cock-ups of late.
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 12:16 GMT
Reliable, quick drives. I'll happily forgo the extra 500GB and get one of these.
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 13:11 GMT
Once you got past the marketing lies and BS, how much capacity are you actually getting?
Lets assume they've gone with the lie that 1TB = 1 trillion bytes, that means the actual capacity of this drive is:
*drum roll*
1.3 TB. The amount you've been conned out of is:
139.01 GB
You know, a few years ago, we called 139GB a hard drive's worth.
Anyone feeling conned yet?
-- Richard
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 13:11 GMT
Just love 'em. Have 4 x 1TB drives - 2 Seagates, 2 Samsungs. The noise the Seagates kick out is ridiculously intrusive, Samsungs are blissfully quiet (presumably the 3/4 platter difference).
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 13:11 GMT
Three is less than four.
The drives aren't the only thing spinning.
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 13:11 GMT
Judging by the number of comments on Dabs.com I think there is a problem with Samsung drives in general. They just seem cheap and cheerful.
http://www.dabs.com/ProductReviews.aspx?&CategorySelectedId=11154&PageMode=1&Quicklinx=4ZTT&NavigationKey=11154&RecordOffset=10&%20
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 13:11 GMT
I can wait.. money stays in my pocket.
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 16:39 GMT
I was worried there for a second, I'm about to oder a QNAP NAS box with a Samsung drive - I did note, however, that the poor reviews were dated prior to August 2008. However, since then, there have been good reviews.
WD is the credible alternative, however, it's over 50% more (though it's claimed to be Green !).
I think Samsung must have had a bad batch, I'll risk it (the NAS is for backup).
Posted Saturday 7th March 2009 11:07 GMT
I bought a couple of 1TB Samsungs a few months back and they are one of the best purchases I've ever made. 116Mbytes/s read speed, really quiet, run cool and I got them at 75 quid each. Fast, cheap, quiet, cool - Samsung were the first to tick all the boxes for 1TB+ drives, IMHO. Surprisingly, the typical price of the 1TB is now 80 quid - perhaps Samsung can't make them quick enough :-) I hope the 1.5TB version is as good as the 1TB, because it'll be at the top of my next hard disk purchase list if it is.
Posted Sunday 8th March 2009 09:44 GMT
The important thing to note here is the difference between gigabytes(GB) and gibibytes(GiB). Many people incorrectly use gigabytes and megabytes to refer to measurement using powers of two when they should be using gibibytes and mebibytes.
1GB = 10^9 bytes
1GiB = 2^30 bytes
This idea follows for kilo/kibi and tera/tebi. You will find that hard drives are correctly refered to as tera-/gigabytes whereas memory is incorrectly using these when they should be using gibibytes. If you are still confused, just look on Wikipedia. The lack of knowledge of these terms means people do not use them so the mix-up lives on.
On the Samsung thread, I've had to bin the drive I got mid last year because it was vibrating a lot. I'm now using 4x1TB and 2x1.5TB WD drives and have had no problems with those.
Posted Monday 9th March 2009 11:28 GMT
WD already has a 3 platter 1.5TB as well as the 4 platter 2TB. they are both from the company's Caviar Green range. which does boast a lot of good energy saving features and WD lists them all on its website.
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