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- 500GB, 7200 RPM
- 16MB Cache, SATA II 3.0Gb/s
- Average Seek Time: 8.9ms, Average Latency: 4.17ms
- 3.5" Form Factor
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SAM HD502HJ 500GB SATA II 16MB
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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These F3 spinpoint drives are the best 7200 rpm drive you can possibly get for the money, the 1tb drive is also very nice. A single platter 500gb drive that has better average read/write times then my 80gb Velociraptor 10k drive. The Velociraptor only beats it in burst speeds.
Raid 2 of these and see 300mb speeds. Buy it before they are out of stock and they were for a long time in lots of places.
Raid 2 of these and see 300mb speeds. Buy it before they are out of stock and they were for a long time in lots of places.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Good product, runs solid, no issues.
The packing from Amazon is great. Protects hard drives well.
The packing from Amazon is great. Protects hard drives well.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Pros:
One year has passed since the F3 first came out and as far as I can tell it's still the fastest 7200 rpm 500 gig drive on the market, faster than Seagate 7200.12 (clearly) and WD Caviar Black (just barely). Probably the quietest as well. I bought and reviewed this drive almost a year ago--it was my first Samsung--and my experience thus far has been all good. Have bought three more since. No regrets. The F3 has become my drive of choice.
Cons: My older F3s, while performing good as new, are now producing more vibration than my new ones. This concerns me. I will update this review if there is further deterioration.
Other Thoughts:
From my first NewEgg review 8/29/09: "I was looking for the fastest single-platter drive, for the usual technical reasons, having been very pleased with the single-platter low-profile drives in the 7200.10 series. Wasn't sure if the new F3 would live up to the F1's excellent reputation. Found some tests of F3s released a bit earlier in Europe and decided to take a chance. The Polish benchmark turned out to be the closest to what I ended up getting. My newly formatted, otherwise empty disk showed HD Tach readings of 256.2 MB/s burst, 13.5ms random access, 4% CPU utilization, and 121.9 MB/s average read. I tested three times and the numbers were within 1-2%, this being the best. Looks like the F3 is indeed faster than the 7200.12 in synthetic testing. As to real world performance and longevity, we'll see. Will follow up this review if I run into any issues. Based on my first impression, though, I've already ordered a second drive."
Now I have four. Glad I took a chance when these first came out. I have included screen shots of my HD Tach results above.
One year has passed since the F3 first came out and as far as I can tell it's still the fastest 7200 rpm 500 gig drive on the market, faster than Seagate 7200.12 (clearly) and WD Caviar Black (just barely). Probably the quietest as well. I bought and reviewed this drive almost a year ago--it was my first Samsung--and my experience thus far has been all good. Have bought three more since. No regrets. The F3 has become my drive of choice.
Cons: My older F3s, while performing good as new, are now producing more vibration than my new ones. This concerns me. I will update this review if there is further deterioration.
Other Thoughts:
From my first NewEgg review 8/29/09: "I was looking for the fastest single-platter drive, for the usual technical reasons, having been very pleased with the single-platter low-profile drives in the 7200.10 series. Wasn't sure if the new F3 would live up to the F1's excellent reputation. Found some tests of F3s released a bit earlier in Europe and decided to take a chance. The Polish benchmark turned out to be the closest to what I ended up getting. My newly formatted, otherwise empty disk showed HD Tach readings of 256.2 MB/s burst, 13.5ms random access, 4% CPU utilization, and 121.9 MB/s average read. I tested three times and the numbers were within 1-2%, this being the best. Looks like the F3 is indeed faster than the 7200.12 in synthetic testing. As to real world performance and longevity, we'll see. Will follow up this review if I run into any issues. Based on my first impression, though, I've already ordered a second drive."
Now I have four. Glad I took a chance when these first came out. I have included screen shots of my HD Tach results above.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great HDD !
Overall this is Very good HDD, it very fast on transferring file. Only one cons, the box is like unofficial box, i get brown box without sata cable, manual book, etc.
Published 1 month ago by Rosi.Gusneni
Fast, reliable, works great in RAID-0
Bought this drive when they were first coming out. Was really taking a chance because a faulty or unreliable hard drive is a nightmare. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Daniel Bonneau
Pulsating vibration...unusable :(
I thought the noise was coming from fans originally, thinking maybe a bearing went out. The HD emits a continuous lower-frequency pulse over the period of a second or so that... Read more
Published 10 months ago by NotTooPicky
Samsung hdd awseome!! Packaging sux
Pretty much can't beat these hdd in this class, but came shook in cardboard box in one bag only, no bubble wrap, no packing, no nada!
Published 11 months ago by Tommy
Fast, quite and rugged.
I installed two of these hard drives in my big gaming self build nine months ago and two more in a slightly less powerfull self-build four months ago. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Handy Andy
Samsung HD502HJ has a low pulsing hum!
I HAPPILY use a single WD Raptor 10k rpm HD for my C: System drive (WOW!- FAST!).
I then went looking for a fast/Quiet slave HD? Read more
I then went looking for a fast/Quiet slave HD? Read more
Published 15 months ago by scottls1
Bad blocks ruin it
This drive worked great for a month, before Windows 7 started identifying bad blocks on it. On the plus side, it's fast, cheap, large, and unbelievably quiet compared to my last... Read more
Published 16 months ago by G. Pitman
Bullet Proof
Since I first started using Samusung Drives back in 2003 in the when of the IDE, and then I bought the SATAI and SATAII, and soon SATAIII, I haven't had a glint of a problem with... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Navaro
Drive did not work
The drive we received did not work. We returned it for a full refund. No problems with the return or receiving the refund.
Published 17 months ago by Drew
Works on SATA I with XP
Installed Samsung Hard Drive on my Pentium 4 SATA I with Windows XP Professional. The Samsung automatically converts to SATA I. The HD did not come with jumpers (OEM). Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Balamotis
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