Review: Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1.0 TByte
Published by Marc Büchel on 15.01.10Page:
Conclusion
| Performance |
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| Samsungs HD103SJ with 1.0 Terabyte capacity showed performance figures which were a bit below the average in our test field. Looking at the sequential numbers we see that they are a bit above the average but on the other hand the random read and write values are a bit disappointing. Unfortunately in the random benchmarks the HD103SJ falls back until it hits the rank second to last. | - Sequential write performance | -
Random write
performance - Random read performance |
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| Life expectancy / Power Consumption / Noise Level | + | - | |
| Never the less a MTBF (Meantime Between
Failure) of 1'200'000 hours is very good for a hard drive in this segment. Also
the noise level is good and we categorize it as subjectively silent. Furthermore positive is the fact that the HD103SJ consumes way less power than other drives. 6.9 Watts whilst accessing, is a very good value and also 6.4 Watts in idle is economical. |
- 1'200'000
hours MTBF - Power consumption - Silent |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you're looking for a data collector that comes with a very good price per Terabyte ratio you definitely wont be wrong going for the HD103SJ. We can also recommend this drive for a fileserver or a NAS. The low power consumption lets you save money when you have a bunch of disks running all day long. What we wouldn't do is using this drive as a system disk. Therefore we'd rather choose a HD103UJ, if it needs to be from the Korean manufacturer, which comes with quite a bit more performance. |
- Data gatherer - NAS - Fileserver |
- System disk |
To a price of CHF 99.- you can buy Samsungs Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ with 1.0 TByte at Digitec.
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