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Author Topic: Worth upgrading to Samsung SpinPoint F3?  (Read 2848 times)

jamieburchell

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Worth upgrading to Samsung SpinPoint F3?
« on: August 06, 2010, 04:17:57 PM »
I've been running 2 Seagate Baracudas 500GB 32MB Cache for a couple of years now. I love my DNS323 and have been toying with the idea of upgrading the drives to 2 Samsung SpinPoint F3s based on the fantastic reviews these drives have. Obviously, I'll have more capacity- but will I notice any performance gain? Is it really worth it? From what I can tell the drive specs don't seem much different to what I have in terms of access times but it's hard to find decent comparison info. I read somewhere these Samsung drives have a long warranty period and high MTBF. I'm all for reliable drives.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Worth upgrading to Samsung SpinPoint F3?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2010, 04:58:29 PM »
Your performance is limited by other factors, having better performing disks will have no effect on the actual performance of the box.
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