Testseek.com have collected 17 expert reviews of the Samsung 3.5 inch Spinpoint EcoGreen F3 SATA300 HD-WI Series and the average rating is 73%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 3.5 inch Spinpoint EcoGreen F3 SATA300 HD-WI Series.
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17 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Minimal power consumption, Solid server performance
Moderate performer in the green category
With the F3EG, Samsung has succeeded in building a drive that users praise for its quiet, cool performance, minimal power consumption, and huge storage capacity. If there’s a trade-off here, it comes in the form of performance which is generally slowe...
Silencieux, Chauffe peu, Grande capacité de stockage
Performances significativement en retrait des meilleurs disques durs, Temps d'accès un peu faible
Un disque aux performances modestes mais parfait pour faire du stockage de gros fichiers. Il trouvera sa place comme second disque dans un PC, ou en grappe dans un NAS dont les débits seront de toute façon bridés par l'interface réseau....
Abstract: Our desktop performance index provides a useful summary and overview on the performance characteristics of both hard drives reviewed here. Seagate’s Constellation ES is much faster than the Samsung Spinpoint F3EG. The Constellation ES slightly outperforms the Barracuda XT, but the two are comparable overall. The Spinpoint F3EG is Samsung’s first 2TB hard drive, but it still underperforms the Spinpoint F3..
Abstract: The F3EG offers decent throughput performance and low power consumption, and it showed extremely low surface temperatures during operation. Unfortunately, it has disappointing application performance and only average power efficiency. It's suitable...
Final Words & Conclusion The Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD203WI is what it is, a bulky and huge storage unit. As such the performance was as expected. Quite honestly for a 2000 GB unit at 5400 RPM the performance really is quite okay. At the beginning of t...
Abstract: Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored..
Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from short...
