Samsung M8 HN-M101MBB

I'm looking for 1tb disk for storage, i remember Samsung was going to be the first in the market, but missed its out already

SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 HN-M101MBB 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Maybe someone already bought one and could give some feedback into how it is, in performance, noise and temperature.

Thanks,

 

There are a few threads about it already. I believe it was Phil that bought one and tested it. Search around

 

I don't have one (yet) but the price (~$89), the RPM (5400), the density (t500GB / platter) and the fact that it's Samsung means that the performance will be marginal at best. (Hitachi and WD are the 'performance' kings).

For pure storage (not O/S duty) it is great (1TB!), but used in a system with a single drive bay - you will be going back to 2008 levels of storage performance.


The temperature and the noise should be very impressive though (5400 RPM) for a middle of 2011 'new' HDD introduction.

For coupling this up with an SSD in a two bay system - I would recommend the WD Scorpio Black 750GB instead. The performance drop with the Samsung will be noticeable (to me).

 

Fixed. They weren't great on their own, and the fact that Seagate now owns them doesn't help their cause.

 

I did search before, with the Samsung M8, Samsung 1tb and Samsung HN-M101MBB, i also search for threads open by phil and didnt find any. Im sure is somewhere, but not by the title, maybe inside a thread of another hdd??

 

This is the fastest 5400rpm 2.5" drive you can get. Reads above 100 MB/sec and writes well above 100 MB/sec.

Power consumption and noise are excellent too.

Keep in mind though, it's still a 5400rpm drive. Random performance of faster 7200rpm drives is better. That means multi tasking, booting and launching applications is faster with 7200rpm drives.

Search on Google works well: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=samsung+1tb+notebookreview.com&hl=en

 

The 'fastest 5400 RPM drive' was a good endorsement back in 2009 (when capacity was critically important...).

Today, it's not saying much.

(5400 RPM drives are at least 45 to 60% slower...).

 

That's not true in 2011

Here's a comparison between the Samsung and Hitachi 7K500. The Samsung beats the Hitachi in everything but random reads. Even the random write performance of the Samsung is higher.

 

Phil, thanks for the PM.

However, you can't compare a HDD introduced in Sept 2009 to a 2011 model. Of course the newer, yet nominally slower model will be faster than two year old tech.

I'd be interested in comparisons to a Scorpio Black 750GB (had benchmarks (clients) but didn't save them to any of my systems...).

I'm sure the Samsung won't look so good to a 'fair' comparison then.

 

The WD Black will be a bit faster in some areas but 45% to 60% is quite the exaggeration.

I'll try to get an Xbench result of the WD Black.

 

No, no exaggeration at all:

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-vs-hitachi-7k500-real-world.html#post5609040

 

The topic of conversation is not that slowpoke Toshiba drive with 160GB per platter released in 2007.

The topic is Samsung Spinpoint M8, the only notebook hard drive with 500GB per platter.

This drive will be good competition to the majority of 7200 rpm drives out there in most situations. In multi tasking 7200rpm drives are likely to win, in file transfers the Samsung will often win.

If you're looking for an OS drive I'd recommend Seagate XT 500GB or WD Black 750GB. Those are the performance champions, assuming you don't want to go SSD yet.

 

7200rpm drives are becoming increasingly irrelevant as msata support is becoming standard with oem's. A Scorpio Black and Momentus XT can't hold a candle to any current ssd. Until ssd's become cheaper (it's happening rather slowly), setups like the one in my sig will become the norm. Lenovo has already implemented msata slots in all their current machines, and it looks like Apple has done the same in the upcoming gen of Macbooks. The rest will follow.

 

Agreed, when they're are no budgetary constraints a SSD or SSD + HDD setup is superior.

There are still a lot of people though that don't want to pay the high price per GB of SSDs. I'm one of them. And for my usage the Seagate XT is almost as fast as an SSD.