Samsung F1 manual Reliability Beats Competition, Special Features for High-density Applications

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Product Guide

Spinpoint F1

160GB / 250GB / 320GB / 400GB / 500GB / 750GB / 1TB

imagine a new era of Tera Byte storage

World’s First Three-disk Solution for Terabyte Storage

Better Reliability, Less Energy Consumption than Other Options

The Samsung Spinpoint F1 is the first three-disk hard drive delivering a whopping 1TB of capacity along with sophisticated recording technology. With its compact, lightweight package and advanced design, the F1 drive offers many advantages for high-density applications compared to using two 500GB drives or a four- or five-disk solution. Compared to a five-disk 1TB solution, the F1 Series consumes 13-16% less power and offers up to 20% faster performance.

This 3.0Gbps SATA drive has a maximum of 334GB of formatted capacity per disk while also featuring Samsung’s industry-leading NoiseGuard™ and SilentSeek™ technologies to eliminate acoustic noise. The Spinpoint F1 utilizes Samsung perpendicular recording technology, which helps the drive set new records in both areal density and platter capacity.

Reliability Beats Competition

The Spinpoint F1 requires fewer components than competing solutions while delivering enhanced reliability versus a 1TB drive with four or five disks or two 500GB disks. With fewer heads and disks, the F1 statistically has a lower probability of head-disk failures. According to estimates, this Samsung drive has a 50% lower failure rate than a two-500GB-drive solution and as much as 31% fewer failures than five-platter 1TB drives.

Special Features for High-density Applications

Servers, high-end desktops, RAID systems and DVRs are among the applications well suited to the Spinpoint F1 drive. The F1 Series is offered in desktop PC or RAID reliability. The RAID reliability mean time between failures is up to 1.2 million hours. A rotational vibration sensor enables the drive to operate more efficiently in a RAID environment.

For consumer applications, a power-saving code reduces power consumption while AV-optimized firmware cuts time delays during AV data recording. In general, the Samsung drive offers a superior combination of density, recording quality and reliability.

Key Features

•Maximum 334GB formatted capacity each in 3 disks

•SATA 3.0Gbps interface support

•SATA native command queuing

•Supports staggered spin up

•Hot-plug capability

•Device-initiated power management

•ATA S.M.A.R.T. compliant

•ATA automatic acoustic management feature set

•Asynchronous Signal Loss notification

•PMR technology

•Flying-on-Demand technology

•Rotational vibration controller

•NoiseGuard™ and SilentSeek™ noise suppression

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