SAMSUNG 500 GIGABYTE SATA DESKTOP STORAGE 7200 RPM 16MB CACHE BARE DRIVE

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Fantastic Rapidly Drive. None

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Extremely quick for a 7200rpm drive. Quiet. Efficient. Inexpensive. Not as fast as 10,000rpm or SSD drives, but how could it be? 1st I had one particular in a Shuttle as my OS drive and was wowed by how significantly more quickly is compared to my green drive and an older 7200rpm Seagate I had. It was also silent compared to the Seagate. Now I have it paired with an additional F3 in a RAID as a scratch drive. This drive is not rated for RAID, but so far no troubles. Honestly, no other 500GB drive should be regarded as. This is the ideal a single out there, hands down and the constant positive word of mouth proves it.

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A very significant advance more than its predecessor: a 500GB Western Digital 7200RPM 3Gbit/s less than a year old. My XP SP3 machine went from a 4ᚭ minute boot-up to 3 minutes following cloning & defrag. (Lots loading: ZA software firewall, AVG Totally free AV, HP network printer bloat!) Weekly defragging seemed to finish a lot faster. GRC's Spinrite6 reported that a full scan (level four) would take only 14 hours, vs 40 hours required for the WD HDD. Exact same computer software also reported zero errors, vs the WD which had thousands. Video processing (Premiere Elements 7, Nero, Slysoft, Immediately after Effects CS4) was notably quicker. none - It's as quiet as any HDD I've owned. Possessing utilised dozens of Maxtor/Seagate & Western Digital HDDs over the final 20 years, I'm now solidly sold on Samsung and Hitachi HDDs (this is my 2nd) due primarily to the significantly improved application load times, specifically as verified by Spinrite.

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-Quiet Quiet Quiet! I never believed I would care about this till I realized that my final Tough Drive resembled a jet engine. It is extremely nice to have a quiet Tough Drive that doesn't announce its presence every single time it seeks.-Trustworthy. So far I haven't had probabilities to test this to it's limits, but I have had it operating overtime with massive information transfers and it hasn't skipped a beat. None so far! Newegg is usually the best. Fast shipping, good service.

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Quite quiet and really very good drive. I installed it and BIOS recognized it appropriate away. Windows XP installed pretty quickly and the speeds are truly fantastic compared to the older Samsung difficult drive I had. None at the moment. My old challenging drive was starting to fail on me. It would hang at times, and a lot more often just do the dreaded clicking. It was a Samsung as properly and lasted me considering that the end of 2006 I believe which I thought was fairly remarkable. Decided to try a different one and it was this one particular. Great speed and was in a position to back up anything from the old a single onto the new 1.

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Specs appear seriously greatEvaluations sound fantasticI'll genuinely be excited when I can install a working 1 DOA NewEgg will be shipping me a replacement. Employing a five year old 75GB SATA in the meantime that I stole from my dinosaur personal computer. Did my 1st full homebuild today and anything went flawlessly except the drive. Yay for obtaining a new 1 although!

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-Functions quietly and speedy for a storage backup. I use a SSD as the boot drive, so this is a reletively rapidly HDD to run my lesser-used apps on.-Single platter signifies much less elements to fail; lower failure rate.-Windows 7 64-bit recognizes drive correct away. No poor sectors discovered and formatted without having question. None however. No grinding noises--that's generally a plus This is a speedy tiny drive for a HDD. Possessing an SSD, I will mention it does not evaluate to that, but it is rapid for what it is!

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It is rapidly, dependable, and low-cost. None that I can think of.

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-Swift-Low heat -None I'm extremely pleased with this difficult drive, reasonable price, quiet, and no key heat issues therefore far.

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Got it for the good evaluations and so far has not disappointed. Intalled easy like any hard drive and is quiet with no vibration. I have an SSD as my boot drive and a raptor for data, I use this as a backup drive. We'll see how lengthy it lasts. The seagates and wd's have an abysmal failure rate lately. None

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-Single Platter-Good transfer speeds-Quiet-Runs cool -Didn't obtain two additional for RAID 5 -Will get 2 much more for RAID 5.I was a small worried about purchasing this card simply because Samsung appears to be a reasonably new name in the HDD industry. I have usually had excellent luck with WD, and I by no means thought that I would switch brands. When I read some of the evaluations for this drive folks had been saying that the efficiency increase over older drives was noticeable. I didn't think it would be THIS noticeable. Single platter has a enormous effect on seek times, and transfer speeds are amazing. Glad I made this buy!

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Quiet, apparently reliable, no troubles setting up. Packaging is only a plastic clamshell, and not quite sufficient bubble wrap from NewEgg. Pay consideration when you open the outer box - if it was rattling about in the outer box and is DOA, nicely.... I bought two for a RAID configuration, in a quiet desktop rig. I can barely hear them more than my fans and only if I concentrate. Scuttlbutt says >ɣTB disks are typically less reliable, single platter is additional trustworthy. And of course I've got two in a RAID (mirror only).

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In service for over a year no errors or problems. Still runs 70MBs or more quickly on my rig none Great HDD

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Rapidly, deadly silent, sturdy. It will break 1 day you know. you can not do anything about it. An apple a day keeps that day away. A cool case as well....

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twice as quick as stock hdd that came with dell inspiron. n/a 𞲞 mb/s avg each approaches.

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It's a single platter challenging drive. none

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Like other individuals have stated, it is very quiet. I had to put my ear up to it to know it was powered up. Seems reasonably rapid too, but I haven't done any sophisticated testing. For the cost I'm rather happy. Only 16 MB of cache almost certainly slows it down a tad, but I haven't noticed any important slowness.

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Nice hard drive, does what it's supposed to. Doesn't really feel inexpensive like some drives I have owned. None.

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Nice drive quiet and stays cool. none Doesn't come with any cables or screws.

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Speedy, trustworthy (thus far), stays reasonably cool, wonderful cost None located I haven't owned a Samsung drive for a though, mainly due to the fact WDs have rated far better in the last couple of years and I was purchasing Seagates before that. I nevertheless have an older Samsung going robust that is nicely more than 6 years old, so I hope this one does as effectively.

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Quiet, average speed and seem to be dependable. I have three in a striping configuration. None They operate fine and advocate this drive to everyone. Samsung is a fantastic business with great client service.

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I've never ever had a drive this rapidly and reputable. I can only hope that it will stay such in 2 years time. If not, I will make positive to come update this evaluation, but as for now...WOW! None, this factor is a beast. This drive is the subsequent finest factor to SSD for your OS. If you are creating a new program and can't go SSD, get this!

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Its a tough drive. It works as expected. Samsung is a brand I commonly trust and this tough drive keeps that trust I hold. I am utilizing this as a backup drive for my one terabyte drive. SATA speeds are great and considerably better than a USB external. None Heh...in 5 years or so absolutely everyone will have SSDs.

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Works great, quiet, COOL operation For the price, none truly! Contemporary tough drives appear to get really hot, but Samsung's spinpoint series usually seem to run really cool and as a outcome have been more dependable for me over the long run. Never ever had 1 fail, whereas I've had a comparable WD drive fail.

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Extremely good drives. Fairly speedy as HDDs goQuietFairly low-cost None but I've had 5 of these in my method running a RAID 5 array with my OS installed on the array because September 2009. I upgraded to a RevoDrive X2 a few months ago, and these are now serving as my storage drive. No dead drives, bad sectors, or any other errors however with upwards of 5000 hours of use and hundreds of on off cycles.