Recommend me a large 1tb & above storage drive

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Hello, I am not in the loop with large storage hdds. I am looking for storing AVCHD files for editing in PP4.1

I am looking for reliability first, < than 100$, ...

Thanks

 

[yh125d]

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB. I've owned several and bought several for friends. Quiet, cool, as fast as a WD Black drive, for $85 shipped at newegg. No reliability issues to speak of, besides the inherent random DOA that you get with any tech purchase

 

[Idontcare]

I've had good luck with both Samsung's spinpoints and the Hitachi drives.

I just picked up 3 of the Hitachi 1TB drives, one was $65 shipped after MIR from ZZF and the other two from Newegg for $75 shipped.

I've got all the standard benches (crystaldiskmark, hdtach, hdtune, etc) for the 1TB hitachi drive, I'll upload the screenies to photobucket and edit this post once I get to them (they are stored on another computer). If anyone has the 1TB Samsung spinpoint it would be cool to see the same benches for that drive and see what the extra $10 buys you performance-wise.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

That'd be sweet cause I was hearing alot about the WD FALS drives being just as fast as a 300Gb vraptor... but this way I can see what the hub bub is about

Thanks

 

[yh125d]

Ill go run hdtune and hdtach real quick on my samsung. Will it matter if the drive is mostly full?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: yh125d
Ill go run hdtune and hdtach real quick on my samsung. Will it matter if the drive is mostly full?

Hard to tell unless someone has done a clean format and HDtune bench to compare too.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I've had good luck with both Samsung's spinpoints and the Hitachi drives.

I just picked up 3 of the Hitachi 1TB drives, one was $65 shipped after MIR from ZZF and the other two from Newegg for $75 shipped.

I am just wondering, does ZZF ship each drive in one of their HD protectors, or did they package it some other way? Same for NE, did they just bubble wrap the HDs together, or what?


edit* whoops, read that wrong. Only 1 HD from ZZF

 

[yh125d]

Samsung #1 HDtune
Samsung #2 HDtune

Samsung Crystaldiskmark

No HDtach, It said only on windows 2000/xp and I'm not gonna bother with it

Also, one of the two has and OS partition and a storage partition, and both drives are mostly full. Not sure how much if any that will affect the benchmarks

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: yh125d
Samsung #1 HDtune
Samsung #2 HDtune

Samsung Crystaldiskmark

No HDtach, It said only on windows 2000/xp and I'm not gonna bother with it

Also, one of the two has and OS partition and a storage partition, and both drives are mostly full. Not sure how much if any that will affect the benchmarks

thanks much!

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Elixer

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I've had good luck with both Samsung's spinpoints and the Hitachi drives.

I just picked up 3 of the Hitachi 1TB drives, one was $65 shipped after MIR from ZZF and the other two from Newegg for $75 shipped.

I am just wondering, does ZZF ship each drive in one of their HD protectors, or did they package it some other way? Same for NE, did they just bubble wrap the HDs together, or what?


edit* whoops, read that wrong. Only 1 HD from ZZF

I haven't received the one I ordered from ZZF yet, their free shipping is the 5-7day fedex option. But the two from Newegg came in the silvery moisture barrier bag (each drive in its own) which were then slotted into this funky styrofoam holder/spacer (just held the drives by the edge on three sides, basically kept the drives from touching each other but not from touching anything else in the box) which was then all wrapped in bubble wrap to keep the drives from touching anything else in the box.

Originally posted by: yh125d
Samsung #1 HDtune
Samsung #2 HDtune

Samsung Crystaldiskmark

No HDtach, It said only on windows 2000/xp and I'm not gonna bother with it

Also, one of the two has and OS partition and a storage partition, and both drives are mostly full. Not sure how much if any that will affect the benchmarks

Being full should not matter for read benches as the bench program just writes to empty areas to then read from it anyways, if files already exist in that sector then it just reads the pre-existing bits.

But your crystaldiskmark results seem kind of suspect, really low. Might be an artifact of the drives being full?

Here's the results for the 1TB Hitachi 3-platter (16mb cache versions are the faster 3-platter, 32mb versions are the slower/older 5-platter):

Hitachi HD Tach

Hitachi HD Tune

Hitachi Atto

Hitachi AS

Hitachi CrystalDiskMark

Hitachi CrystalDiskInfo

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Are these suppose to be THEE best 1tb drive in their market segment?

 

[yh125d]

I think my crystalmark results are low because of the drive being full. That test was on a drive with only like 125gb of 930 free. I ran the test on the OS partition on my other samsung (the outside 175gb of the drive) and got much higher numbers, around 110MB/s for sequential read/write

 

[JosephBAdams]

Thanks for the information, guys. I want to buy a new hard drive (500GB-1TB) in the next week. My top priority is speed. Right now I have two MaxLine III drives that have performed very well. My personal experience is that WD and Seagate are more reliable than Maxtor, and right now I'm only looking at the Samsung, Hitachi, and WD.

 

[Dorkenstein]

How many platters in the Samsung 1tb F1's?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

So, I'm about to hit the checkout button on a few things including a drive. From what I've been reading, is that, New Eggs packaging (of HDDs) combined with UPS-shipping + a HDD is a bad combination with lots of people reporting drive failures. Should I opt for Fed Ex? What do you think?

 

[Emulex]

opt for someone that packages their stuff well. lol.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
So, I'm about to hit the checkout button on a few things including a drive. From what I've been reading, is that, New Eggs packaging (of HDDs) combined with UPS-shipping + a HDD is a bad combination with lots of people reporting drive failures. Should I opt for Fed Ex? What do you think?

If the drive was packed correctly, it should survive whatever carrier.

For NE, it depends on which warehouse, and who is doing your order. I have read reports (& seen) of them using brown paper as a buffer, and bubble wrap, or foam peanuts + bubble wrap.

From my recent purchases, I think the best right now is dell (brown paper, around another box, and in that box, they use the eggcrate foam to keep the drive from moving), then ZZF (airbags on sides, and the foam drive pouch), then NE (what I said above).

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
How many platters in the Samsung 1tb F1's?

3


And as for the shipping, Ive ordered probably 6 or more through newegg/UPS, and not a problem yet

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
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Hows the noise level of Hitachi drives?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Are these suppose to be THEE best 1tb drive in their market segment?

no

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Are these suppose to be THEE best 1tb drive in their market segment?

no

do you know which one is

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster

Originally posted by: Idontcare
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Hows the noise level of Hitachi drives?

Loads quieter than my dual raptor-x's, thats for f'ing sure :thumbsup:

It's also just as quiet if not quieter than the 500GB Hitachi and the 500GB WD RE2. Also quieter than my DVD burners. Does my subjective data help?

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Are these suppose to be THEE best 1tb drive in their market segment?

The Seagates are supposed to turn out better numbers than Samsung and Hitachi, but the WD Caviar Black is going to be your second fastest while the WD RE3 is going to be your fastest 1TB drive (and you pay for the privilege too).

If you want speed then avoid the WD Green drives, they have lower rpm's. Also if you start looking at drives >1TB be sure and lookout for the rpm specs because some of the seagates and the hitachi's have <7200rpm's when you get above 1TB (as do all the WD drives, including the RE4).

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I think I have decided on a drive

Thanks ALL!!!

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Loads quieter than my dual raptor-x's, thats for f'ing sure :thumbsup:

It's also just as quiet if not quieter than the 500GB Hitachi and the 500GB WD RE2. Also quieter than my DVD burners. Does my subjective data help?

Yeah it did help.

Ive used Seagates, WD and Samsungs i.e have a fair idea how they perform/what their noise characteristics are but never have I used Hitachi. Gives me another alternative option for deciding which 1TB I should go with. (Leaning on the Samsung F1 atm)

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I think I have decided on a drive

Thanks ALL!!!

What you end up deciding on?

 

[Dorkenstein]

How many platters in a Caviar Black 750gb, anyone know?