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Product Description
2TB 3.5 INCH DRIVES,FDB/32MB BufferProduct Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #66 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: HD204UI
- Dimensions: 1.03" h x 4.00" w x 5.79" l, 1.43 pounds
- Hard Disk: 2TB
Features
- Capacity: 2TB Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM Cache: 32 MB
- Interface: SATA 3.0Gbps Max. External Transfer Rate: 300 MB/s
- Seek Time:Average: 8.9 ms Average Latency: 5.52 ms
- Shock: Operating: 70G @ 1/2 sine pulse Non-operating: 300G @ 1/2 sine pulse
- Power Requirements: Voltage: +5V ?±5%, +12V ?±10% Spin-up Current (Max.): 2.0 A Seek (typical): 5.7
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Great Drive By Jimbo
I purchased 5 of these and put 4 of them into a RAID 10 configuration. Average speed is 170MB/sec over the entire volume. The single drive averaged about 105MB/sec. These drives are VERY fast and are equal to or faster than many of the 7200 RPM versions currently available. The good news is that the Samsung HD204UI drives are much cooler and require less power.
Reason for purchase: a media server. I had attempted to use external USB 2.0 drives to accomplish this but file copying was slow and tedious. And I had backups of backups... My motherboard is a 4-year-old ASUS P5E WS Pro with an Intel Q6660 CPU and ICH10R RAID chip.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
probably the best 2TB drive right now By Ivan
I get 130MB/s - 100MB/s writes over SATA, and the drive stays cold. I think you can safely use this drive without a fan, which is great. My only complaint: the drive I received makes an audible high-pitched sound (probably ~15000hz), so if you have sensitive ears like me, you might not want this as one of your primary drives.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Fast, quiet, and cheap! By George L.
I purchased the Samsung F4 2TB hard drive after thoroughly reading many of the reviews and after overcoming my initial shyness over the lowly 5400RPM spindle speed. Like many people out there I was brainwashed into believing that higher RPM's is better; which is true to a point. You would want a higher spindle speed for your OS or programs (but then you might as well get yourself an SSD (solid-state drive).
But I just wanted something for storage, and for that purpose this hard drive works great. 2TB of storage for $79.99 (sweet sale price when I got it from amazon) could simply not be beat. Keep in mind that after formatting you really only get 1.81TB (due to the bytes and all scheme they got going on).
Packaging was okay from amazon. It basically came in a box within a larger box. The hard drive itself was packaged in a somewhat hard plastic shell and held in place by two light plastic holders within that one box. There were no foam nuts and any other sort of packaging in place to protect the hard drive but I don't believe this affected the drive while in transit.
The drive does NOT come with any SATA cables; so be sure to have one handy. Also, it requires a SATA power connector to your PSU; which most people should know already but make sure your PSU has extra (most modern ones should come with at least one ribbon full of SATA power connectors). The only thing that came with the drive is 4 screws so that you can secure it to your case. Other than that it's as barebones as it gets.
After installing the hard drive into my Antec 300, I performed a long format which took a few hours. Then I began copying over files from a Western Digital 1TB Elements drive, which was only USB 2.0. Per Windows 7, I was getting write speeds of over 30MB/s; which was pretty damn impressive (at least to me). I did read somewhere that as the hard drive is nearing capacity that read/write speeds may slow down considerably but hey, for 2TB costing $79.99 with no tax and shipping and for pure storage this is really a non-issue for me. Great drive, low temperatures, cheap, and runs super quiet (I cannot backup claims made by an earlier reviewer that there is a pitched whine but that's just me). I totally plan on buying another one when the price is right again from amazon.
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