Reviewers Liked
- Minimal power consumption, Solid server performance
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Moderate performer in the green category
Samsung Spinpoint EcoGreen F3 2TB SATA300 HD203WI
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Expert reviews and ratings
60
A drive with modest performance levels but perfect for storing large files. It will find a place as second drive in PCs or in an NAS where speeds are in any case compromised by the network...
By DigitalVersus on
100
Generally fast performance and lots of storage at a reasonable price makes the F3 2TB a great value hard disk....
By Expert Reviews onWe want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and...
By X-bit Labs onOur sample of the Samsung F3 EcoGreen 2TB HD203WI proved to be fairly quiet but not exceptional acoustically. Its noise level is nearly up to the quietest 7200 RPM drives. It does not fare well in a comparison with similar capacity quiet 3.5" drives...
By SilentPC Review onWith the F3EG, Samsung has succeeded in building a drive that users praise for its quiet, cool performance, minimal power consumption, and huge storage capacity. If there’s a trade-off here, it comes in the form of performance which is generally...
By StorageReview onOur desktop performance index provides a useful summary and overview on the performance characteristics of both hard drives reviewed here. Seagate’s Constellation ES is much faster than the Samsung Spinpoint F3EG. The Constellation ES slightly...
By Tom's Hardware onThe F3EG offers decent throughput performance and low power consumption, and it showed extremely low surface temperatures during operation. Unfortunately, it has disappointing application performance and only average power efficiency. It's...
By Tom's Hardware UK onFinal Words & Conclusion The Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD203WI is what it is, a bulky and huge storage unit. As such the performance was as expected. Quite honestly for a 2000 GB unit at 5400 RPM the performance really is quite okay. At the beginning of...
By Guru of 3D onAbove is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to...
By HotHardware onNow, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from...
By X-bit Labs on
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