Product Reviews
- “The Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD502HI is a dream come true for the quiet PC seeker. It is inaudible at idle, which is the single most important HDD characteristic for low noise computing. It sits at the top of quiet HDDs reviewed by SPCR.”
- “Once again, Samsung has produced a simply superb hard disk, delivering fantastic sequential and real world performance. Surprisingly, the new 1TB SpinPoint F3 is very keenly priced, more or less matching the price of the old 1TB SpinPoint F1. As such, this disk is a must-buy if you can't afford an SSD as your boot disk, or if you want masses of fast storage.”
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Samsung F Series ECO Green Ultra-Quiet Hard Drives
These days, PC storage requirements seem to be on the increase. Whether you want to store many gigabytes of music, or a library of digital photographs or video files, what you need is a drive that provides fast and reliable data access. Samsung is right on the edge of new storage technology and we are sure that their high performance drives will provide for all your needs. Don't forget that these market-leading drives are so quiet, you will hardly even know they are running!!
These High Capacity hard drives are designed to be used with today's newest connection - Serial ATA (SATA). Providing more bandwidth and advanced features such as NCQ, Staggered spin up and much more, these drives are ideal for today's systems which can have up to eight SATA ports and support various RAID styles which are ideal for power users, people who want data security and much more. Please refer to the drives information for a full list of features. Remember the New SATA II Drives are backward compatible to SATA and shouldn't cause any issues.
Not sure what NoiseGuard or S.M.A.R.T. is? Then you need to check out Samsung's white papers for all the techno babble.
Features
- Environment friendly product with RoHS compliance
- Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps Interface Support
- Improved performance with dual-ARM based firmware
- Improved recording stability over temperature with PMR
- ATA S.M.A.R.T. Compliant
- Advanced dynamic FOD control for best data integrity
- ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature
- Intelligent compensation of external disturbance
- ATA 48-bit Address Feature
- SATA Native Command Queuing Feature
- ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature
- Device Initiated SATA Power Management
- NoiseGuard™
- Rotational vibration sensor
- SilentSeek™
Specifications
| HD154UI | HD203WI | HD503HI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 1500 GB | 2500 GB | 500 GB |
| Interface | Serial ATA 3.0Gbps | ||
| Buffer DRAM Size | 32 MB | 16 MB | |
| Byte per Sector | 512 bytes | ||
| Average Seek time(typical) | 8.9 ms | ||
| Average Latency | 5.52 ms | 5.56 ms | 5.52 ms |
| Data Transfer Rate / Media to/from Buffer(Max.) | 166 MB/sec | 135 MB/sec | 250 MB/sec |
| Data Transfer Rate / Buffer to/from Host(Max.) | 300 MB/sec | ||
| Drive Ready Time(typical) | 12 sec | 10 sec | |
| Non-recoverable Read Error | 1 sector in 10^15 bits | ||
| Start/Stop Cycles | 50,000 | ||
| Noise- Idle | 2.50 Bel | 2.7 Bel | 2.20 Bel |
| Noise- Performance Seek | 2.80 Bel | 3.1 Bel | 2.70 Bel |
| Temperature / Operating | 0 ~ 60 °C | ||
| Temperature / Non-operating | -40 ~ 70 °C | ||
| Humidity(non-condensing) / Operating | 5 ~ 90 % | ||
| Humidity(non-condensing) / Non-operating | 5 ~ 95 % | ||
| Liner Shock(1/2 sine pulse) / Operating | 70 G | ||
| Liner Shock(1/2 sine pulse) / Non-operating | 350 G | ||
| Altitude(relative to sea level) / Operating | -300 to 3,000 m | ||
| Altitude(relative to sea level) / Non-operating | -300 to 12,000 m | ||
| Voltage | +5V±5%, +12V±10% | ||
| Spin-up Current (Max.) | 2.0A | ||
| Seek (typical) | 5.7W | 7.1W | 4.5W |
| Read/Write (typical) | 6.3W | 6.2W | 5.0W |
| Idle (typical) | 5.1W | 5.4W | 3.8W |
| Standby (typical) | 1W | ||
| Sleep (typical) | 1W | ||
| Dimensions | 26.1 H x 101.5 W x 147.0 L mm | ||
| Weight | 650 g | 690 g | 475 g |
| Warranty | 24 months | ||
| Rotational Speed | - | 5400 RPM | |
Customer Reviews
HD154UI (2)
Lindsay Young - Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:34
(8/10)
I've been running a pair of these in a raid array for a while now. They have the classic HDD seek noise, but during constant operation they are quite quiet (hard to hear them over the HDD cooling fan, especially when compared to the previous 7200RPM drive I was running), and run noticeably cooler than the 7200RPM drives (again, the previous 7200RPM got VERY warm to the touch, these are noticeable, but hardly "hot").
Definitely slower than a 7200 when it comes to outright performance (the raid pair scored 5.9 on the windows test), but hard to argue with when you consider the noise and heat generated by most 7200RPM drives. I would almost say these are a must for any media box. Buy multiple and raid them if you really want more performance.
Personally I'm coming back for a third one and going RAID5.
Anonymous - Posted: 14 Aug 2009 22:50 (8/10)
Although not totally silent this drive is very quiet compared to the normal 7400+ RPM types; you'll have to be listening very closely in a quiet room to notice it when it's mounted in a decent case. It runs quite cool and so it can easily be put into an acoustic enclosure, in which case you'll be hard pushed to tell it's even running. Performance isn't stunning but is still more than adequate for most tasks including media-PC work.
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