Samsung EcoGreen F4 2TB Review: High Performance on 5400 RPM

Competition in the storage market is getting heated. This is indicated by the release of a new model, low-powered, and high capacity hard disk. Just like a hard disk that comes to our testing table.

Hard disks that came was Samsung EcoGreen F4 HD204UI. This hard disk is a Samsung solution in Green Computing. Capacity that we get is a 2 TB disk that has 5400 RPM of rotary speed and 32 MB cache. Interface used was still using the SATA 3 Gbps or the second generation. A hard disk is not yet require a 6 Gbps SATA interface because there is currently no hard disk that can reach the upper limit of the first-generation SATA speeds.

SATA II controllers that Samsung used  is a  Marvell-made chipset. Then, what about the performance of this low-powered class hard disk? Can it compete with those hard disk that already exist in the market?

Testing Platform

• Motherboard: Intel H67 LGA 1155
• Processor: Intel Core i3 2100 3,1 GHz
• RAM: Kingston DDR3 8 GB
• Storage: Kingston SSD V+100 64 GB
• Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 5550
• Power Supply: CoolerMaster GX 550 Watt
• Input Device: Genius Keyboard and Mouse
• Monitor: 18,5 inch LCD
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit

We bring back a hard disk that also has low power to determine how well the Samsung EcoGreen hard disk is.