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Question

Samsung spinpoint F1

Aug 28, 2015 10:33AM PDT

I am able to buy the specified used drive for small price. Disk is 4 years old. What worries me is that disk have more than 30 000 powers on hours count. I read on this page that total estimated life time of HDD is 43 000 hours. What do you think, is it worth buying?

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Which F1?
Aug 28, 2015 10:43AM PDT

Here I can buy new 500GB drives for under 50 bucks delivered to my mail box. Since I want such things to be reliable, the small price would have to be say less than 1/2 the price of new.

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F1
Aug 28, 2015 10:56AM PDT

Full name is Samsung HD103SJ. Seller said that he used it as a storage device. It also has a Interface CRC error count, I am familiar with that, that could be probably because a bad cable. Price is fair, but I am worried because I want to use this disk for my system and that power on hours are worry me. If I were not limited with the budget I would take immediately SSD. Sorry for my bad english Happy

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IT is a F3
Aug 28, 2015 11:13AM PDT

I made a mistake, it not F1 it is a F3.

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Better be cheap.
Aug 28, 2015 12:26PM PDT
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WD blue
Aug 28, 2015 2:01PM PDT

I will not buy this Samsung F3, too much risk. If I don`t find any good used HDD (Samsung or Caviar black), I will probably go with the WD blue. Are there any real difference in perfomance betwen size of disk cache, 16MB (WD blue 500GB) or 64MB (WD blue 1TB)?

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Sure there is.
Aug 28, 2015 2:08PM PDT

But the ugly truth is the OS caches so much that 16 or 64MB HDD cache is almost meaningless today.

I'm not writing the used second hand drive is a bad deal. But I am writing it better be cheap.

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Probably WD blue is coming
Aug 28, 2015 2:14PM PDT

OK, thank you very much. Regards Happy