2008: 1000 GB Spinpoint F1 EcoGreen (HD103UI)
The Spinpoint F1 was the first three-platter terabyte hard drive, and it still can be considered a good hard drive despite its age of one and a half years. However, Samsung added the F1 EcoGreen (EG) a bit later. This model runs at only 5,400 RPM instead of 7,200 RPM in an effort to reduce power consumption. We decided to use this model, as it’s a “first-generation” 5,400 RPM drive—more and more high capacity hard drives will be based on lower rotation speeds, so this is a perfect example to show where the power saving efforts of the hard drive industry came from. And there is good news: the F1 EG delivers better throughput than the T166, despite its reduced rotation speed.
The Spinpoint F1 EcoGreen hard drives are still available, so we have to clearly point at the newer Spinpoint F2 EcoGreen drives (see next page), which deliver further increased performance along with reduced power consumption. However, the F2 EG starts at 500 GB capacity and goes up to 1,500 GB, while the Spinpoint F1 EcoGreen is available at 250, 320, 500, 640, 750 and 1000 GB. Most models have 16 MB cache, while the 750 GB and 1000 GB capacity points come with 32 MB cache memory. The three-platter layout makes the F1 EG nearly exactly as heavy as the T166 (640 g vs. 639 g), but it provides better operating shock specifications of 70 g vs. 63 g.
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"Most people don’t think about Samsung when they talk about hard drives"
How do you figure that?
How about you test these drives with the AAM(AUTOMATIC ACOUSTIC MANAGEMENT) turned off?
I'm pretty sure it will be quite an interesting benchmark.
Though it is a very informative article, I find the temperature measurement for the T166 (500gb) drive inconsistent with my own T166. Using SMART drive information, it runs idle at 31C. Not 45C.
Wow good article
buth i need a help too.
i wan't to buy a new HDD and i need help to decide wich form the two HDD it's the best: HE103UJ (7 years worrantin) or WD1002FBYS (8 years warrentin) :|
Someone can help me ? the hdd i will use it for storrage or for run the OS (Vista/Windows 7 x64)
I have the 2007 and 2008 model, and I want to get their 2009 1.5TB 7200RPM model at some point, as well as an SSD (possibly Samsung). I'm a bit of a storage geek, and, from where I sit, Samsung is the best storage solution.
Nice guide, handy for those looking for HDDs.
I like WD
i use western digital, simply because, i've got a sammy 1.5TB on RMA for the 4th time since i got the drive a few months ago, whereas the WD i got at the same time (a 1tb drive) is still chugging away. i've had several sammys die, never lost a WD in 5 years.
There is now a 512 gigabyte SSD from Toshiba and Super Talent.
I agree with anon, I also have had 4 Samsung drive failures. Price performance is irrelevent when reliability is compromised. I am going back to Seagates.