Thread: Samsung SpinPoint F3 2TB harddrive

In the Samsung SpinPoint F3 2TB HD203WI walk four magnetic disks of 500 GB of raw capacity to work. In the formatted state will remain a total of 1863 GB of usable space. The Samsung Spinpoint F3 Ecogreen HD203WI works with a reduced rotational speed of 5400 revolutions per minute. The advantages of the reduced rotational speed show up in a low operating noise and power consumption - all you need in exchange for fast access times to give.

In practice, brought the Spinpoint F3 Ecogreen HD203WI a decent performance. Their transfer rates in writing, reading, and a combined write-read test were largely good. Of fluctuating emotions, there was a 3.5-inch drive in the face of a 5 GB folder with 1,000 MP3 files: In the write and read / write rates combined produced the Samsung HD203WI peak values, but slips up on the same train at harvest transfer rate. As slow as the Samsung read any of the other hard drives with 2TB of disk space the files. The access times of the F3 Ecogreen HD203WI went for a drive with reduced rotational speed in order, were in absolute terms but only average.

In this important for a green disk test claimed the F3 Ecogreen their ecological requirements. Among all the 2-TB models, the Samsung HD203WI had the lowest power consumption at idle - but Samsung led to the placement with ultra-thin ahead of the eco-models of the competitors from Seagate and Western Digital. Under load the hard drive also acted very sparingly. Overall, the consumption of Eco-drives were very close, with a maximum of 0.5 watts difference. Top were the noise of the Samsung HD203WI that could undercut the only rival Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS. Samsung's hard drive posted in return but better performance.