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Now is an exciting time for the storage industry. Not only have laptop hard drives seen capacities jump up to 500GB, but regular 3.5-inch desktop hard drives have reached the 2TB capacity point. These Serial-ATA drives are the mainstays for enthusias...
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digitalversus.com Updated: 2011-10-04 03:54:01
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Back in 2008, we tested the Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ, which used the same components (three 334 GB platters or a total of 1002 GB), but had a limited formatted capacity of 750 GB. Today, were looking at its clone, the Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ, which uses all...

Good read and write sppeds, Quiet, Access time just 13.8 ms, Noie management...

Noisier than a 5400 rpm drive...
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The largest SpinPoint drive on test benefits from the same features as the rest of Samsung's range, with PMR technology, NoiseGuard and SilentSeek all present. In our benchmarks, though, the 1TB SpinPoint wasn't quite as quick as the award-winning 750G...

Good performance and value, but it's outpaced by the 750GB model...
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ocaholic.ch.english Updated: 2011-10-04 03:54:01
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In this review we show you how Samsungs actual flagship of the Spinpoint F1 series performs in our detailed testing parcours. As usually we show you senquential and random read/write performance and youll be able to see if the Spinpoint can cope with...

With the Spinpoint F1 1.0 TByte Sasmung has a hard diks in its portfolio with diverging performance figures. If we look at the sequential write performance in this particular test the Spinpoint F1 performs very well. If we also look at the random read...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2011-10-04 03:54:01
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When we first reviewed this hard disk 13 months ago we were bowled over by its performance, but at £216 including VAT, it was too expensive for a Best Buy award. Since then its price has plummeted, but it remains one of the fastest hard disks availa...
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itreviews.com Updated: 2011-10-04 03:54:01
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A lot of high performance storage at a very attractive price. And its quiet, too. Samsung - Spinpoint F1 price Buy Samsung Spinpoint F1 securely online at a bargain price £67 inc. VAT Samsung: 01932 455 000 www.samsung.com Find other articles about S...
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Samsung SpinPoint F1: Phew, what a performer... Samsung’s website doesn’t offer any software for its hard drives, and the PDF installation guide is incredibly short and uninformative, so we’re somewhat in the dark about the HD103UJ. It h...

All four Terabyte drives in this round-up offer a colossal amount of storage at a very reasonable price. The Hitachi is showing its age but still delivers decent performance, but we were less convinced by the green power saving features of the Western...
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We've long been fans of Samsung's internal drives, and the terabyte-sized SpinPoint F DT - rejoicing in the model numer HD103UJ - is for now the largest drive in the range. Like all 1TB drives, it offers 930GB of usable storage in NTFS. But while compe...

A capacious yet affordable drive that ticks every box...
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Samsung specifies an 8.9 ms seek time, which results in an effective average access time (including rotational latency) of 14.2 ms. Compared to Seagate (12.7 ms) and Hitachi (13.8 ms), this is clearly slower, but the result is still better than the 15.0/1...
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