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The new Spinpoint F3 series of hard drives consist of two platter disks.
Samsung sent over a press release revealing the new Spinpoint F3 line of high-density hard drives that only use two platters. Operating at 7200 RPM rotational speed, the new line provides up to 1 TB (Terabyte) of storage, meaning the drive's two platter disks would consist of 500 GB each. By using only two disks, the drives use less power and offers 30-percent higher performance than a three-platter drive in the same 3.5-inch form factor.
“Our customers require not only additional capacity but also high performance for their server and desktop storage systems, while promoting a green environment,” said Choel-Hee Lee, vice president of marketing, Storage Systems Division, Samsung Electronics. “The massive capacity-per-platter and high-performance features of the new Spinpoint F3 make it an attractive solution for driving the growth of high-density storage.”
Samsung also stated that the Spinpoint F3 series is compliant with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS), and uses SilentSeek and NoiseGuard to "achieve a quiet operation system." The drives also use a 3.0 Gbps SATA interface, Native Command Queuing features, and a 16 MB / 32 MB buffer memory.
The 1 TB Spinpoint F3 drive is scheduled to ship in August, however the 500 GB version (using 250 GB per platter we assume) is now available worldwide.
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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.
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.
I can't believe you bought a Seagate.
Haha, I'm sure he learned.
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.
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.
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.
Seagates for the lose. FTL
Tom, when can we expect to see some performance numbers from this drive?
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.
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!
Had absolutley no problems with my Seagate 1.5
I have had a seagate 1.5 tb for months fast, quiet drive no problems
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.
Cool.
I want a 1TB single platter for y storage...
And live five x25-e in raid 0 for everything else. =D
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.
Does this mean 2.5TB will be here soon?
30% faster? Why, because 1/3 less platters? I am skeptical, but if they are really that much faster I will get one.
Can someone tell me of any, or why there are no single platter HDDs? Just curious.
I'll take a single platter 500GB thank you. =)
when does a 5 X 500GB/platter come out?
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
I've seen Seagate, Western Digital and Maxtor drives goes bad... It's all in how you abuse them...
30% faster? Why, because 1/3 less platters? I am skeptical, but if they are really that much faster I will get one.
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.
Can someone tell me of any, or why there are no single platter HDDs? Just curious.
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.
does that mean cheap 2TB samsung drives soon?
I was under the impression that the Seagate 7200.12 1TB drives were 2 500GB platters. Yes/No?
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
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.
Samsung could release a 5 gig drive right now and I wouldn't touch it until they clean up their warranty processes.
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.
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
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.
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.