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Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 Review

Hard Drive Reviews

<![CDATA[Seagate Technology PLC is a data storage company based in Cupertino, California. It was incorporated in 1978. Seagate's first product was the 5-megabyte ST-506, it was the first hard disk to be in a 5.25-inch form factor. The motherboard that this hard drive is for is an AMD GA-990FXA-UD7. The GA-990FXA-UD7 supports 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices, 2 eSATA 6b/s connectors. (Motherboard Blog)
Max out your gaming computer with an enormous traditional hard drive, the ST1000DM003. It can keep all of your games as well as other media files. This hard drive is intended for gaming or business PC’s because of moderate to high usage.
Specs:

  • Capacity- 1 TB
  • RPM (Rotations Per Minute)- 7200
  • Latency- 4.16ms (milliseconds)
  • Average Read Speed- 8.5ms
  • Average Write Speed- 9.5ms
  • Transfer Rate- SATA 6.0 GB/s
  • Buffer size- 64 MB
  • Mean Time Before Failure- 29166 days= 79.9 years
  • Warranty- 2 years
  • $79.99

Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive

Works Cited
“GIGABYTE – Motherboard – Socket AM3+ – GA-990FXA-UD7 (rev. 1.x).” GIGABYTE – Motherboard – Socket AM3+ – GA-990FXA-UD7 (rev. 1.x). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
“Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive – 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s – ST1000DM003.” Tigerdirect. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
“Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003.” Newegg. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2014.
“Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda 7200.11 SATA Product Manual – Page 24.” Seagate ST1000DM003. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.

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SAMSUNG 840 EVO Solid State Hard Drive Review

Hard Drive Reviews, NT IT Reviews

<![CDATA[Samsung is a company located in South Korea, and they are recognized as the one of the worlds biggest companies on Forbes (#20). They had a net income last year of billion dollars.  This is a nice cozy profit that leaves me to believe they will be around a while.
For this NT IT Tech review I will be presenting a Samsung solid state drive (model: MZ-7TE1T0BW). This would be great for playing games or rendering and editing videos. As you will find with gaming you really want the solid state drive to give you a edge up on the competition. This could also be great to hold your operating system. Also this hard drive can go with the ASUS Rampage IV Black edition (Review found here).
 samsung_840_evo_250gb_laptop_kit
 
The tech specs:

  • Size: 1Tb
  • Speed: 540Mb/s (read) and 520MB/s (write). (Take note this is the sustained sequential read and write)
  • MFTB: 1.5 million hours
  • Three year warranty
  • 4Kb read/right: 98,000 IOPS and 90,000 IOPS respectively
  • use SATA III (compatible with SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s, and 1.5Gbs)

All tech specs can be found here.
Through all my years of PC gaming I have never had to use more than one terabyte, but most people will agree that this is a perfect number. Also the read and write speeds are amazing for all the things you might need to do. The mean time before failure equals up to 171.119 years that number speaks for itself. If you are interested in buy this hard drive it can be found on Newegg.com for $556.

Works Cited
“1TB 2.5-inch 840 EVO SSD.” Samsung. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
“SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE1T0BW.” Newegg. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
“Samsung.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Mar. 2014. Web. 15 Mar. 2014.

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