SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I purchased the Samsung HD204UI drive in April 2011 for use in Ubuntu/MythTV. The drive worked well for this use until January 2012.

Cons: One night the drive filled the log files with a few GB of read errors. No success with fsck repairing the errors. Moved the drive to a Windows PC and it fails Seatools tests. No SMART errors though. Tried to reformat in Windows, but didn’t complete successfully. Sent back to Seagate for an RMA.

Overall Review: I also use a Samsung 1.5 TB HD154UI purchased January 2010 and it still works fine.

Pros: price and capacity

Cons: I purchased the exact same model about a year ago and that one works perfectly. I've had this for 5 months and now and then, it causes my operating system to boot up and run very slowly. I haven't found any errors yet but it's definitely not running as it should.

Pros: Price, conformance is great even for a 5400RPM,

Cons: Noe

Pros: Price on sale was very good. Kudos to NewEgg for giving good prices. Fairly fast for a 5400 RPM drive.

Cons: Can't think of any, other than Samsung getting out of the Hard Drive market and selling out to Seagate. Hope quality doesn't suffer.

Overall Review: Great drives for storage or for a raid system. Probably not the best for using as a boot drive.

Pros: Cheap 2TB As quiet as other drives in its class

Cons: None so far. About the only way a hard drive could have a con would be if it died within an unreasonable time, and I just got two of these a couple of weeks ago, so if mine dies quickly, I will update this review, but so far so good!

Overall Review: It blows me away how cheap hard drives have become. Even last year 2 TB drives were $200 and up. This is a great drive for a WHS or any data depot. Its not fast, but its not supposed to be. You cant go wrong with a %$70 drive! :)

Pros: So far no problems. Have only two of these. Use them as simple disks to backup raid arrays and write to about 60% of the surface every day. They are cool during writes and no errors.

Cons: none, have not yet had to try samsung returns

Pros: Just as MANY people have claimed (and I for one did NOT believe it until I read some reviews from the net) this HDD transfers at speeds of 90-130 Mb/s!!! I did a partition clone with Acronis from a an old 750GB drive that had 500GB of data on it and it was finished in 38 minutes. I file transferred 46GB of data to it and it maintained speed over 100Mb/s.

Cons: NONE!

Overall Review: I got this for my mom's computer as a backup storage drive. THIS drive is good enough to use as an OS drive (C: drive). It is VERY quiet. it is VERY low power (lowest in it's class) I have a high end gaming PC and wouldn't hesitate to use it as an OS drive. Unbelievable.

Pros: Very very fast for a 5400rpm drive, quiet, runs cool, Samsung reliability, inexpensive out of the gate ($129) and became even more affordable within just two weeks ($109), great upgrade to the F3EG predecessor, 667GB platter design results in 3 platters instead of 4, higher density translates to faster seek times.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Had been waiting for almost half a year to purchase a pair of 2TB drives for the new media server. Had owned Samsung F1 7200rpm drives and ran out of space -- the WD20EARS had issues with too-frequent head parking and the Hitachi used 5 platters. Samsung F3EG was possibility, but was holding out for a 7200rpm Samsung 2TB model. That didn't happen, but instead they released this 5400rpm F4 -- cooler temps, energy efficiency, and speed from increased platter density was the winning combo. Shellshocker deal was $109 for the HD204UI plus a Rosewill USB/SATA dock -- unbeatable. Notes for Linux users. Lots of info on web on how to handle the 4K sectors, but no real straightforward "How To." Well here it is: Run fdisk with the -u parameter to partition the drive and select 64 as the starting block (instead of default 63). Then, use the -b parameter in mkfs to specify 4096 block sizes: mkfs -t ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sda1 Results are impressive: hdparm -t /dev/sda1 = 132MB/sec