SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: WOW! Bought 2 running in raid0 128k stripe (probably should have done 64k) short stroked to 120 gigs. For about a hundred bucks I wish I would have bought these two for my OS than the 70 I spent on the WD 750 caviar black. The caviar black gave good results on start up and general use, but these two samsungs really are FAST. Files load at least 50% or more faster. Start up and shut down are noticeably faster. First use of Microsoft office is still faster than the caviar black, but upon re-opening a word doc it becomes almost instantaneous. I’ve run hdtune 2.55 and crystaldiskmark 3.0.1 x64. Crystaldiskmark seems too good to be true CDM 3.0.1 x64 Samsungs raid0 Sequential read sequential write 303.2 mb/s 280.3 mb/s 750 caviar black Sequential read sequential write 126.0 mb/s 122.5 mb/s Hdtune 2.55 Transfer rate Samsungs Max 227.8 mb/s Min 131.3 mb/s Average 196.3 mb/s Access time 9.7 ms Burst 145.5 mb/s 750 caviar black (see ot

Cons: absolutely NONE!

Overall Review: continued: hdtune 2.55 750 caviar black Max 128.5 mb/s Min 61.0 mb/s Average 100.2 mb/s Access time 12.5 ms burst 132.8 mb/s i'm very happy i bought these two instead of an ssd. i'm still not comfortable with their price and reliability. maybe someday i'll look into one. i've had no problems with vibrations or noise. they've been VERY quiet. would definitely recommend these samsungs! current build AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Thermaltake Blue orb II GIGABYTE GA-880GM-UD2H CORSAIR XMS3 16GB DDR3 1333 2 Samsung Spinpoint F4 320 Raid0 WD Caviar Black 750GB APEVIA X-QPACK2/Gold Windows 7 Professional 64/ Samity Linux

Pros: Outstanding drives. Have three in RAID 0 with 400 mbs average sequential read times. Low cost for great performance.

Cons: None

Pros: Reading test with HD tune 2.55 starts at 164 MB/s higher than old SATA 1 standard. Average read tops out at 134MB/s higher than max read speed of the Seagate 7200.12 500GB, which is around 131MB/s. Both HDD are installed and tested on Asus M4N72E with nVidia 740 SLi chipset.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Will order another one to RAID 0 and use as boot drive.

Pros: Inexpensive at the time of purchase. I have experienced no faults or problems with this drive whatsoever.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Upon first installing the drive my computer was only able to recognize the first 128gb of the drive (windows xp 32bit). The operating system is to blame for this. Windows xp can only recognize the first 128gb of the drive until you update to sp2. After updating I managed to get windows to recognize the remaining amount.

Pros: Can get two of these bad boys for under 100 bucks, Raid 0 them together for even faster performance. HD Tune test's read 285mbit max, 230 average sustained, 160 low. These drives are really fast. I am a gamer and wanted to get some new drives that didn't that performed well but didn't break the bank.

Cons: none

Pros: Has worked fine since 2010 with no problems. It's inside a PC that stays running almost 24/7/365.

Cons: None since 2010.

Pros: My pc boots up in 20sec pretty decent! nothing wrong with the hardrive so far

Cons: None At ALLLL!

Pros: Fast. Cheap. It works. 320 GB is plenty of storage for my needs.

Cons: None so far (knock on wood).

Overall Review: There are a lot of fears out there about hard drives recently. And I don't blame people. Manufacturers have been doing some shoddy work lately. Though I haven't owned this drive for that long, so far it is doing just fine.