Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Review

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » October 6th, 2009, 11:00

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Review
With a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, two 500GB platters and 32MB of cache, the Spinpoint F3 is the latest performance hard disk drive from Samsung, replacing the much loved Spinpoint F1. You guys demanded the review, so finally, here it is!

Category: Storage
Publish Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:16:08 +0100
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Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 7th, 2009, 4:58

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

This thing looks fast. Velociraptor fast.

So, I'm having two

Post by **deject** » October 7th, 2009, 5:18

ooooooooooo

do want

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 7th, 2009, 5:20

Yup, they look most tasty, and as my raptors have been struggling for some times (I constantly run at like 15gb free) well. how could I resist?

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 7th, 2009, 9:04

The F1's haven't dropped much anywhere, but I expect that'll change soon.

I've got 1.something TB spare now I've dropped another new drive in, but I think I'll have to get one of these as that'll fill up soon enough.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 7th, 2009, 9:06

How did your experiments into imaging go?

I'm not sure how possible it'll be for me to plug another 2 drives in at the same time, the lights dip when I boot as it is

edit: another thought, did you say the Fista clone disk function worked well?

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 7th, 2009, 9:08

Also, the link they've got up there to overclock is the cheapest I've seen the F3, ocuk, ebuyer and scan are all a few quid more. Plus ocuk have changed their shipping again and it's not cheap so they're a bunch of cunts.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 7th, 2009, 9:09

I ococked mine, they're reliable and I trust them, even if it does cost a bit more.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 7th, 2009, 9:35

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:How did your experiments into imaging go?

I'm not sure how possible it'll be for me to plug another 2 drives in at the same time, the lights dip when I boot as it is

edit: another thought, did you say the Fista clone disk function worked well?

As I've copied a rather idiosyncratic and bloated old xp install thaty I'm fond of it's all cranky and weird. But acronis has handily changed the drive letters and such, I'm ironing out a few niggles like short system hangs after videos closing and the 'what the shit!' problem which is actually a hdd thing I've discovered but generally I'm pretty chuffed with how painless it was.

I've not done anything with fista because I never use my install as it annoys me so much. I've tried a bit of registry merging with it and the win 7 beta, that actually worked quite well.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » October 7th, 2009, 10:28

HereComesPete wrote: Plus ocuk have changed their shipping again and it's not cheap so they're a bunch of cunts.

Register on their forums. After 90 days and 250 posts, shipping is free

Just don't post anything too nasty; you are bound to break one of the many, many "family friendly" rules.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... ium=banner

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 7th, 2009, 10:55

I'd rather just order from ebuyer. I actually trust them more given I've had less problems and more success with phone calls to ebuyer than ocuk.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » October 7th, 2009, 11:26

HereComesPete wrote:I'd rather just order from ebuyer. I actually trust them more given I've had less problems and more success with phone calls to ebuyer than ocuk.

They are a lot better now Spie has handed over the running to someone who isn't a massive cupcake. I still hear horror stories, mind.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 7th, 2009, 11:41

Arses, I got my F1 last week. It's very nice, mind.

Post by **fabyak** » October 7th, 2009, 12:41

Dabs are my weapon of choice, because Scan are cunts and ebuyer shitlisted the Uni and won't sell to us any more!

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 7th, 2009, 13:22

Stoat wrote:Arses, I got my F1 last week. It's very nice, mind.

It's still fast and a great storage drive. You've lost nothing really as you can buy an F3 in a bit.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 8th, 2009, 14:27

Just used the trial of acronis true image to clone my raptors to my 500GB drive, then the 500GB to the F3s, took a while, but reasonably painless.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 8th, 2009, 14:32

I've never looked at drive letters as emoticons before, but I fear I'll see nothing else now.

Stuff looks so unhappy and MoreStorage has a cleft palate.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 8th, 2009, 14:34

loon

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 8th, 2009, 16:41

Also, I did not realise how loud raptors are, machine's considerably quieter now.

Post by **fabyak** » October 9th, 2009, 10:04

Drive counting, your doin it rong