Tuesday, June 15th 2010
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Samsung Launches 3.5'' Spinpoint F4 320GB Hard Drive
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced that it is now shipping the Spinpoint F4, the newest model of its Spinpoint F series drives. The superior performance and high-reliability Spinpoint F4 is engineered for high-end computing in PCs, Macs, high-end workstations and server applications.
"Higher performance combined with increasing capacities continues to accelerate demand for 3.5" drives in desktops storage," said In-Chul Park, vice president of sales, storage systems division, Samsung Electronics. "The one-head platform of the new 7200rpm Spinpoint F4, packing up to 320GB of storage capacity per one head in half platter, delivers added reliability that our customers have come to expect from Samsung."With a one-head platform design and fewer mechanical parts, the reliability and acoustic features of the Spinpoint F4 have been improved. The drive delivers 10% increased read/write performance and 7% lower power consumption than the Spinpoint F1.
Eliminating halogen compound and brominated flame retardant from the PCBA, the new Spinpoint F4 is produced with eco-friendly materials and meets all the environmental regulations including RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances).
The Spinpoint F4 features 7200 rpm speed rotation, advanced areal density technology and a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface. Equipped with Samsung's exclusive dynamic balancing technology, the drive's overall stability and reliability is optimized as a high performing solution. Samsung's proprietary SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies are incorporated in the drive to offer ultra quiet operation.
The Spinpoint F4 drive has an 8MB/16MB buffer memory and is available in 320 GB capacities worldwide. The Spinpoint F4 is available to key OEMs now.Image courtesy: Chipchick
"Higher performance combined with increasing capacities continues to accelerate demand for 3.5" drives in desktops storage," said In-Chul Park, vice president of sales, storage systems division, Samsung Electronics. "The one-head platform of the new 7200rpm Spinpoint F4, packing up to 320GB of storage capacity per one head in half platter, delivers added reliability that our customers have come to expect from Samsung."With a one-head platform design and fewer mechanical parts, the reliability and acoustic features of the Spinpoint F4 have been improved. The drive delivers 10% increased read/write performance and 7% lower power consumption than the Spinpoint F1.
Eliminating halogen compound and brominated flame retardant from the PCBA, the new Spinpoint F4 is produced with eco-friendly materials and meets all the environmental regulations including RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances).
The Spinpoint F4 features 7200 rpm speed rotation, advanced areal density technology and a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface. Equipped with Samsung's exclusive dynamic balancing technology, the drive's overall stability and reliability is optimized as a high performing solution. Samsung's proprietary SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies are incorporated in the drive to offer ultra quiet operation.
The Spinpoint F4 drive has an 8MB/16MB buffer memory and is available in 320 GB capacities worldwide. The Spinpoint F4 is available to key OEMs now.Image courtesy: Chipchick
18 Comments on Samsung Launches 3.5'' Spinpoint F4 320GB Hard Drive
I mean, only 16MB cache max and only 320GB ? Sounds weird...
16MB cache is enough on a smaller sized drive.
But I would rather see 2TB version of F3 than this.
Who knows probably not, just avoid checking Seagate and Samsung they are all junk.
Want prof here you go...Seagate 1TB crap
blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hands-on-review-of-1-tb-seagate-barracuda-720012/
Samsung crap
hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1391743
Just waiting for some cash then my Samsung will be smashed to pieces.
Hitachi is my next bet, that must work.
Love my Sammys.
Either way, this annoys me, I've just been buying F3s and they announce the F4s dammit lol.
I've been using Samsung drives for years and I've never had a single drive fail. I beat you Dark by one. I've got 7 Samsung drives.
:rockout:
Working in I.T. the company I work for, use WD HDDs and these have increased in quality a lot since I've been at this company. However, I still won't ever change unless Samsung standards slip.
PS, I've been with this series since F1.
F1 1tb, still running strong, none have died.. still havnt had a faulty samsung, ive had faulty maxtor, WDC, and loads of seagates. but i will eventually get faulty samsungs, done samsungs now the last two and a half year. or maybe 3..
They run in a Nas, and theyre not showing signs of any faults even though they get quite hot, 40C
F5 will be the next killer to come, but not for a while, took some time from F2 to F3 too.
PS I am a time traveler from 2006 Dude if i had your internets i would download the internets
i've had far more seagates (that firmware issue) and WD (640GB drives) die than any others.
the point is, some series of drives (and therefore, brands) are more prone to failure than others in certain conditions. EG, drives that cant handle 40C ambients with 90% humidity are gunna die around me like its going out of fashion.
oh and my 512KB IBM drive beats your 4GB WD
I got a seagate 256 mb (circa 1994) still works and a Core 10 mb (circa 1990) had 1 F1 Rma'ed Maxtor 500 1 IBM 20gb opver the last 15 years