Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Reviews

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3 Reviews For Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB

  • Guest 15th Oct 2008

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    Just crashed my second Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb HDD in 6 months. Both drives started to make trouble and all of a sudden it woundt be recocnizes by Windows (or any other OS) anymore. Samsung will replace your drive but wont try to recover your data.

  • kiyawhite Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel 11th Jan 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I got the Samsung SV1204H hard drive with my PC, which is an ADVENT 3213 from PC World.

    It's features are OK; 120GB capacity (but 112/111GB registerable), and NoiseGuard technology that really works! In fact, I'd never have know that it was there... until it went wrong.

    I love to fiddle around on the inside of my PV, which I'd do on a regular basis. However, recently I've taken the cover off my case and all wasn't well. It was worse than a grasping a hot radiator when you touched the hard ...

  • WeeBeanie Rank: Corporal 4th Aug 2004

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    The Samsung SV1204H Hard Drive was bundled with a cheap computer package, so unsurprisingly it is not going to be the best. Providing plenty of disk space (111 Gb to be precise), it is a reliable piece of kit which makes little sound, but offers little in the way of performance, spinning at a measly 5400rpm, slow at today's standards. On benchmarking this, slow reading speeds let it down significantly, causing stuttering and slow loading speeds in new games when loading.

    Overall if it was c ...