2TB Samsung Eco Green F4 $110 shipped AC @ newegg

[nyker96]

$130 w/ $20off code.

code = EMCNFJA32

Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152245

considering how expensive HDs are now, this is pretty decent deal.

 

[Pardus]

5400RPM spin speed

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

5400RPM spin speed

Which is hinted at if look at the fact it's an EcoGreen model...

Anyway, most people looking at these high capacities are typically wanting a media drive, and you don't need anything more than 5400RPM for videos, music, photos, and any other type of media you may have.

 

[Pardus]

Which is hinted at if look at the fact it's an EcoGreen model...

Anyway, most people looking at these high capacities are typically wanting a media drive, and you don't need anything more than 5400RPM for videos, music, photos, and any other type of media you may have.

Its not bad for a secondary/storage or off-site drive, would be slow as a primary drive for most. Review

Bottom Line

While the Samsung Spinpoint F4EG did well with synthetic tests, it stumbled behind the prior generation drive in our battery of real world tests. But the green drives aren't about performance; here power is king, along with price. If those two variables are key in your purchase decision, then in the 2TB capacity there isn't a better choice than the F4EG.

 

[alyarb]

These are great drives with higher density and sequential reads than the F3.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Its not bad for a secondary/storage or off-site drive, would be slow as a primary drive for most. Review

Bottom Line

IMO:

If you're an Enthusiast now-a-days for a primary drive it's a Solid State Drive or bust. The most relevant capacities, from 120/128GB to 240/256GB are 1GB/dollar for high-performance drives. By the end of the year we'll probably be starting to reach 1.15-1.25GB/dollar.

In terms of enthusiast adoption I think SSDs will be mainstream by next year probably, but mainstream adoption I don't see happening until three years from now.

 

[LumbergTech]

I'm still holding off on the SSD. I want a 240+ gb for $150 or less

 

[markrb38]

Not the $89 I picked my last three up for, but that was before the floods.
Best price I have seen on these for awhile now. Been waiting for prices to come down to fill the last slot in my RAID array. Now if I only had the money.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

My 1TB 7200 RPM gets beat to crap by my 2TB 5400 in terms of speed.

 

[Ovven]

I love how cool these 5400rpm drives run. My 1.5tb Samsung runs ~10C cooler than my 7200rpm drives, and hopefully this 2tb will be just as good once it arrives.

 

[Mitch101]

1) Price is within $21.00 of the low before the floods. $89 vs $110 which is pretty fair.

2) Reliability these are excellent drives I have 6 of them although I had one go bad.

3) Return policy - Seagate RMA'd the bad drive painlessly. Took 3 days to arrive at seagate and return replacement is on its way back. They are sending me a seagate drive as a replacement but Im ok with that I have two of them and they seem to work fine. Unlike Hitachi when they bought out IBM basically told me my drives were OEM and not warrantied and I still had the boxes for them.

Kudos to Seagate for smooth transition in the purchase of Samsung and customer loyalty.

 

[alyarb]

the low for the F4 was $70...

 

[gevorg]

Pretty good drive, even for some games. I've installed Mass Effect trilogy on this drive and it worked flawlessly, with quick loading. Modern 5400RPM drives are very good for storage and general usage.

 

[SimMike2]

My 1TB 7200 RPM gets beat to crap by my 2TB 5400 in terms of speed.

People forget to look at the density per platter, which can be a way bigger performance factor than spindle RPM.

 

[nusyo]

i don't want to get off topic, but are these reliable to store your main back up? (referring to pictures mainly).

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

i don't want to get off topic, but are these reliable to store your main back up? (referring to pictures mainly).

If you're to go by the user reviews, yes. 82% rate it as "very good", and we all know people are much more prone to report on failures than success so that number is probably much higher. They've been on the market for more than a year and they seem to be very solid.

 

[aman74]

IMO:

If you're an Enthusiast now-a-days for a primary drive it's a Solid State Drive or bust. The most relevant capacities, from 120/128GB to 240/256GB are 1GB/dollar for high-performance drives. By the end of the year we'll probably be starting to reach 1.15-1.25GB/dollar.

The prices are going up still? Sorry, I'm a bit out of the loop...I had heard about the HD price increases, but thought they'd be stabilized or heading back down by now and not up. Looking to buy in the near future.

 

[HDAmazon]

Not bad of the deal.

 

[legcramp]

the low for the F4 was $70...

Nope, I picked two up in November 2010 for $59.99 a piece free shipping from the egg. And to think I was thinking of holding off back then for even a lower price drop. Still running them today and their transfer speeds are definitely faster than my 1TB F3 7200RPM drive.

 

[imaheadcase]

Awesome home server drives.

 

[GEOrifle]

I bought them for $65 each before floods, this prices are just temporarely, for end of year will be even cheaper than before ....

 

[xxxkaliboyxxx]

Man, wish I would of seen this before i bought 2 seagate externals just to harvest them

 

[xboxist]

The prices are going up still? Sorry, I'm a bit out of the loop...I had heard about the HD price increases, but thought they'd be stabilized or heading back down by now and not up. Looking to buy in the near future.

If you get more GB per dollar that means the prices are going down. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.

250GB for $250 = 1GB/dollar
250GB for $200 = 1.25GB/dollar

 

[Zargon]

I bought them for $65 each before floods, this prices are just temporarely, for end of year will be even cheaper than before ....

lulz.

define temporary. its been over a year, a year and a half even?

 

[BenJeremy]

lulz.

define temporary. its been over a year, a year and a half even?

Insert CuriousDog.jpg here...

It's been around 6 months. The floods occurred in late October 2011.

The price increase has been mostly artificial, anyway, a scheme by the industry to get a breather to recover from the falling prices of platter drives... unfortunately for them, it has a secondary effect of giving SSD makers a chance to consolidate and go mainstream. Combined with the falling SSD prices (thanks to the Sandforce fiasco), many consumers are finding SSDs to be a necessity - and platter drives' main advantage, capacity, is becoming less of an advantage.

People no longer automatically consider making a 1TB or 2TB drive their main drive - for many, a 120GB or 240GB drive will do (and why not? platter drive makers kept the laptop drive "sweet spot" at 80GB for way too long). They take the tradeoff of speed over capacity... and the sweet spot is still around $200~250 for those consumers. It barely affects a system price.

Keeping the prices artificially high might give Seagate and WD a brief respite, but in the long term, it's yet another nail in their coffin. In 5 years, platter drives will be a specialty tech filling a specific niche - cheap storage server farms.