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Samsung Story Station 1TB review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £79
inc VAT

Samsung's Story Station is a fast, inexpensive and attractive 1TB USB hard disk.

Although Samsung is an established manufacturer of internal 3.5in hard disks, the oddly named Story Station is the company’s first desktop external hard drive.

The brushed metal and grey plastic enclosure looks sleek and is quiet, too. The front-mounted power switch also doubles as a dimmer for the disk activity light, which is a classy touch.

We were impressed by the Story Station’s performance in our file-transfer benchmarks. It’s one of the fastest desktop USB disks we’ve seen when copying both large and small files. This will help to reduce frustrating delays when copying large quantities of data.

The included backup software can back up your files in the background as you work, or according to a schedule. It can back up only files that have changed since the last backup, saving time, and can keep older versions of files, so you can revert to them if you make a change you later regret. The fiddly interface is more frustrating to use than it should be, though.

The Story Station is great value at 8p per gigabyte. It’s fast, well designed and wins our Best Buy award.

Basic Specifications

Rating *****
Award Best Buy

Storage

Hard disk Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD102SI
Capacity 1TB
Formatted capacity 938GB
Price per gigabyte £0.08
Disk size 3.5in
Interface USB
Power connector external
Spindle speed 7,200rpm
Cache 16MB
Seek time 8.9ms
Weight 866.0kg
Size 40x120x193mm
Power consumption idle 2W
Power consumption active 7W

Buying Information

Backup software included Samsung AutoBackup 4.1.366
Price £79
Warranty three years RTB
Supplier http://www.yoyotech.co.uk
Details www.samsung.co.uk