Workstation I/O Performance per Watt
In this test we first look at the I/O performance under workstation-like environments, focusing on the maximum number of I/O operations per second. The results don’t come unexpected, of course. The Spinpoint F RAID wins, the Spinpoint F is second, and the EcoGreen F provides the lowest transaction performance for workstations.
However, the picture drawn by our power consumption testing is entirely different. The EcoGreen F consumes the least power for the given tasks, while the others require similar amounts of power. Putting performance and power requirements into relation changes the picture, though.
As the performance disadvantage of the EcoGreen F drive isn’t as large as the power savings, it actually reaches far better power efficiency for workstation-type I/O operations. The energy-efficient drive clearly delivers more workstation I/O operations per watt.
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I had two Samsung Spingpoint F1 (1 Tera byte) they both failed within 2 weeks of each other, S.M.A.R.T reporting status BAD.
The Samsung after sale server in UK is also poor (outsourced to Rexo - rexo.co.uk), you can't get a new disk before the old one has been returned ! (try to compare this to WD service where they send you a new disk) I know for sure this has been my last two Samsung disks ever. Now happy running with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 disk.
All down to personal experience. Samsungs after sale service may be poor, but I've had far less F1 drives fail on me than WD varients. The F1 series in my books are the best drives in the 1TB region available right now !