The Samsung F4 is a great storage drive.
Since I was running out of hard drive space a few weeks ago I decided to pickup a new hard drive to use for a storage drive. Most reviews online said that this drive was one of the best, so I decided to get it. While performance was great, there have been some glaring issues that have caused some concern. There is an issue with this drive where it can cause corruption of your data unless you update the firmware on the drive. While I knew this when I bought it, it was still a minor annoyance, even if it only took 2 minutes to update. Once I updated the firmware, I reinstalled Windows 7 on my SSD and got to filling this drive up with all my files. Everything was going fine until a few days later. I turned on my computer from sleep and noticed that the drive had disappeared from Windows completely. Suprised, I tried to reboot my computer and the drive came back like nothing was wrong. After looking up the issue online, it seems to be a common occurance with large drives that doesn't have a definite answer. After updating my sata drivers, applying a microsoft hotfix, switching sata cables and ports, it seems that the issue has gone away. Other than that issue, the drive has been great. Don't let the 5400 rpm fool you. Since it has 3 platters, it still is a very fast drive. I measured max speeds of 137 MB/s and an average of 105 MB/s which is great for a storage drive. Overall I am impressed with this drive and I would recommend it to everyone.
fpoama
Milwaukee, WI