Samsung Spinpoint F1 Desktop Class HD103UJ 1 TB

I bought this hard drive from ebuyer.com, and it was under £60. Before this i owned a 250 gig Hitachi drive, and a 320 gig Maxtor drive, and so i wanted to dump all these files in one place, and then have room to spare. Installation was easy, the drive was recognised first time in windows, no faf. Its capacity is actually about 930 gig, this is due to differences in specification (1 tera-byte means 1000 giga-byte or 1024 giga-byte). This small reduction in capacity is a standard of all hard drive manufactures, and is annoying, but there is no getting around it. Its still a very very large amount of space even without this loss. The drive has a very ...  Read the complete review

It's pretty hard to write an exciting review about a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) so I think we need to keep this one fairly basic. I have two of these because I believe they are that good. You can pick these up for around £60 now, which is as cheap as chips in my book! These drives run quiet and cool. No annoying HDD 'seek' noises from these bad boys. Both mine sit at least 3C to 6C cooler than my other 2 HDD's. The large 32MB cache is a boon when you are moving large files around. A typical DVD rip (DivX) movie of around 700MB can be moved in just a few seconds. A good 1TB drive like these will hold around 200 DVD's or thousands of albums. I ...  Read the complete review