Photo by Joel WashingI just bought myself a new 1 TB hard drive. It is a Samsung SpinPoint (HD103UJ) and it has 32MB of cache and runs at 7200RPM. So far it has been a great investment. It has not had a problem sucking up my 600GB worth of file I threw at as soon as I got it!
The speed is pretty good, a lost faster than the old IDE drives I had in this machine. Formatted it has a useable space of 931GB formatted on a Windows 7 system using NTFS file format. My motherboard recognised it straight away without a hitch, my motherboard is about 3 years old.
So all in all it is a great drive with some very cool features, if you want to upgrade your storage capacity I suggestion you head on over to Komplett.ie and take a look at their amazing prices.
Komplett.ie Direct Product Link – Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA2
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=343055
PRODUCT FEATURES:
- Serial ATA 3.0Gbps interface support
- Improved recording stability over temperature with PMR
- Advanced dynamic FOD control for best data integrity
- Intelligent compensation of external disturbance
- SATA native command queuing feature
- Device initiated SATA power management
- Staggered spin-up support
- Environment friendly product with RoHS compliance
- Improved performance with dual-ARM based firmware
- ATA S.M.A.R.T. compliant
- ATA automatic acoustic management feature
- ATA 48-bit address feature
- ATA device configuration overlay feature
- NoiseGuard
- SilentSeek
September 12th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Hello,
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your reviewsfromtheshed.boofly.com.
Have a nice day
Charlie
September 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Thank you for your comment. At the moment it is as and when but by the end of Septembe I am hoping to have a new LiveReview once a week. Stay tuned.