Thread: Samsung Spinpoint Ecogreen F2 harddrive

The SATA hard drive Samsung Ecogreen F2 HD154UI works with only 5400 instead of 7200 revolutions per minute. The reduced rotational speed to help the 1,500-capacity hard drive to save power. Compared to the previous model GB-1000-Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ Samsung SpinPoint F2 HD154UI consumes a maximum of 6.3 watts remarkable 25 percent less power. The lower rotational speed has another advantage:

The swing data discs not as strong, so that up to 50 percent can reduce sound levels. The test of the 500 GB model of Ecogreen series, the Samsung Spinpoint Ecogreen HD502HI F2showed the already impressive than hitherto quietest 3.5-inch hard drive in the test. On the other side, the reduced rotation speed at the cost of the transfer rates and access times as the test of the Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS occupied. All the more amazing is that the Samsung Spinpoint Ecogreen F2 HD154UI still sound very good transfer rates achieved in the test to.

The manufacturers like to advertise with the sequential transfer performance of a hard drive. This theoretical maximum is reached the disk, but only if you back up huge amounts of small files. Critical to the daily work is therefore practical data rate that we determine the characteristic reading, writing and copying on the inner and outer data tracks. The Samsung Ecogreen F2 HD154UI was despite the reduced pace of rotation a good to very good practical performance. Across all six individual measurements averaged, the 1500-GB hard disk drive was the sixth fastest so far in the test. When reading the innermost data tracks the HD154UI weakened to 18.8 MB / s but the same. On the outer tracks the SATA hard drive for good reached 41.0 MB / s.