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    Samsung Releases Terabyte High-Density Internal Hard Drive Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Amber Riippa, Jun 9, 2011.

  1. Amber Riippa

    Amber Riippa NotebookReview.com Contributor

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    Samsung announced the release of its 1TB internal hard disk drive yesterday, the Spinpoint M8. The hard drive has a 9.5mm (H) form factor to fit inside notebooks and consists of two 500GB platters.

    Read the full content of this Article: Samsung Releases Terabyte High-Density Internal Hard Drive

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    Amber Riippa, Jun 9, 2011
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  2. Xonar

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    8mb buffer? Bah, must be a 5,400 RPM or slower drive. Nonetheless, good to see 500GB platters now.
     
    Xonar, Jun 9, 2011
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    Anyone know if this is 5400rpm or 7200rpm? I did a quick search and didn't see an answer.

    I'm assuming it's 5400rpm, but at $130 it's not a bad deal. :)
     
    alexUW, Jun 9, 2011
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    Can be had for <$100. It's 5400RPM and 8MB is more than sufficient, especially since most users will be using this as a data storage drive.
     
    sgogeta4, Jun 9, 2011
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    If you click on the '+' to enlarge the image, at the top it says 5400rpm.

    Dunno how long we'll have to wait for a speedier version, but I suppose this is better than nothing.
     
    AMATX, Jun 10, 2011
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  6. Phil

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    I ordered one. Will post some benchmarks this week.
     
    Phil, Jun 11, 2011
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    Buffer makes little difference whether it's 8MB or 64MB.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 11, 2011
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  8. Xonar

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    I was using it as a guideline to guess the RPM speed. 5,400 RPM drives tend to have 8mb buffers, while 7,200 RPM drives have 16mb for notebooks. I didn't realize the picture was so hi-res.
     
    Xonar, Jun 11, 2011
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    I'm most interested in the actual power consumption, shock resistance (e.g. does Samsung include something like Seagate's G-Force Protection in their new drive) and heat generated. Any word on these?
     
    WLT, Jun 13, 2011
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    What is the baseline for the "7% increase in speed and 8% decrease in power"?
     
    mtneer, Jun 18, 2011
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  11. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Good question. Those are manufacturer numbers so it is compared to their previous high-capacity drive, most likely. Not a big deal either way.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 18, 2011
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    Agreed, most likely when compared to Samsung Spinpoint 640GB.
     
    Phil, Jun 18, 2011
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    It's about time they have the 1TB out at 9.5mm. :D
     
    jsailorca2002, Jun 18, 2011
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    mine seems to reach 46 degrees C :mad:
     
    Axisofevil35, Aug 8, 2011
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    That's perfectly fine and within normal range. What is your ambient room temperature?
     
    sgogeta4, Aug 8, 2011
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    about 24 degrees C
     
    Axisofevil35, Aug 8, 2011
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    i got a pair of these in raid 1 on the m18x. transfering about 400gigs worth of data from the desktop samsung F1 1Tb raid 1 array drives to the laptop array through crossover cable the speeds was averaging 50MB/s. i was hoping closer to 75MB/s but right now i need the storage. i am not sure what the 750gb 7200rpm WD black hard drives would do, but i was under the impression they would perform about the same. they are priced the same.
     
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    The WD7500BPKT is much faster than the 1TB 2.5" 9.5mm drives. The 1TB drives perform extremely well in synthetic benchmarks but fall on their face in real-world scenarios (comparatively; the 1TB drives' performance is still acceptable).

    The 1TB drives are good for storage; a 500GB-750GB 7200RPM drive (WD, that is) are much better as primary drives.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 10, 2011
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    Or Momentus XT and Hitachi 7K750.
     
    Phil, Aug 11, 2011
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  20. ARGH

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    They benched with hdtune and scored 67.5MB/s avg. I found hdtune to be fairly accurate for indication of real world performance.

    If someone can hdtune the WD black i would like to know
     
    ARGH, Aug 11, 2011
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    Sequential performance in HDTune is a good indication for file copy performance.

    Random performance says more about every day OS and application performance.

    I've owned this Samsung 1TB, in opening applications it feels like a 5400rpm drive.
     
    Phil, Aug 11, 2011
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    Well it should since it IS 5400RPM :p
     
    sgogeta4, Aug 12, 2011
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  23. ARGH

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    update, these drives are falling out of the raid array only upon windows bootup and it requires them to be intitialized or error-checked. it happened twice so far but the frusterating part is that the intel raid system does not state which drive failed or what so don't know whats going on. i am getting them exchanged.
     
    ARGH, Aug 12, 2011
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    i switched to the WD 750gb scorpios and you are exactly right! :D
     
    ARGH, Aug 21, 2011
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