Samsung uses the same parts as Seagate
How?
Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, and Hitachi are the only HDD manufacturers in the world. Totally separate companies.
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How?
Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, and Hitachi are the only HDD manufacturers in the world. Totally separate companies.
eCliPSe
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Samsung uses same parts as Seagate. Remember a hard drive is a number of parts, chips , platters, magnets and many more. Most of the parts in a Samsung HDD is the same. Not all manufacturers makes all of the parts. I believe Seagate and WD makes most of their own parts but also sells it. I know Hitatchi makes some of theirs to.
Got a source for this information?
The_Unnamed
WUD FTW
Mostly down to luck for sureI've had Seagates, Samsungs, WDs, Maxtors and only 1 died - the old Maxtor. Granted it did live next to a big speak for most of its life. My old Seagate does sound like it's on it's way out but my 7200.12 and 2.5" are going strong, as are the WDs and Samsung.
I work in an environment where we service close to 8,000 machines, the majority being desktops which all use WDs. And they are definitely long lasting if I think of the small amount of faulty drives we deal with. No matter what brand you have there's a chance it will fail at any time - let lady luck be on your side.
We just shipped a R80,000 odd Dell machine to a customer - Dell fitted it with 4x 3.5" Seagate 7200.11's. Ouch!
I can top that. We bought a 6tb IBM NAS device. 12 x 500Gb 7200.11 :-/. So far 6 have died. Thank heavens for RAID 6 and 2 hot swappables.
Firmware?
The_Unnamed
WUD FTW
Probably the dodgy one. Can't take them out to check :-/. Or should i say not allowed to
Probably the dodgy one. Can't take them out to check :-/. Or should i say not allowed to
SMART tools can give you the firmware version.
Fujitsu used to make drives, and then:
"Fujitsu Limited has transferred its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba Corporation on October 1st, 2009."