With the HD103SJ Samsung shows its latest drive from their Spinpoint series. The 1 Terabyte drive is based on two 500 Gigabyte platters. On one hand the F3 Series should be energy efficient and durable but on the other the performance might be a bit lower.

Specifications

Model	Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1.0 TByte
Capacity	1.0 TByte, 32 MByte Cache
Accesstime (read)	8.9 ms
Life expectance	1'200'000 hours (MTBF)
Powerconsumption	Seek 6.90 Watt Access: 7.40 Watt Idle: 6.4 Watt
Acoustics	Seek: 29 dB Idle: 27 dB
Warranty	3 years

On the following pages we will show what Samsungs Spinpoint F3 with 1'000 GByte disk space is capable of.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 5 - Random read/write KByte/s
Page 2 - Preview	Page 6 - Sequential write/read ops
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 7 - Random write/read ops
Page 4 - Sequential write/read KByte/s	Page 8 - Conclusion

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