Samsung Harddrive experience?

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wpswart006

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A while ago I had a Samsung HDD in an external enclosure.
Things lead to things, and it experienced a great fall,( like Humpty Dumpty).
When I bought a new PC , I installed the HDD from the enclosure into the new computer.
It worked fine for about a month, and then broke down.

What is your experience with Samsung HDD's , and is it my own fault that it broke?
 
Have a 1.5 year old Samsung 500Gb in my pc, no issues so far. Had terrible problems with Maxtor drives in the past, but I hear even they are better quality now...

I feel that hard drives in general are more suseptible to failure these days compared to older hard drives.
 
Samsung drives are fast (the Spinpoint F1s I think, used to be crazy specials on them for R800) and have a good reputation here.
 
My Samsung drive spins like a prima ballerina. Doesn't run as hot as some of my other drives and all is well, no probs what so ever
 
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-1 for the Samsung 1TB's I had - returned them 4 times and gave up after the fifth - possibly a bad batch, but I'm taking no chances

I carried on with my WD's... all my older 160/250GB WD drives are still going strong since 2003/2005 respectively, and they are on 24/7 (without power saving enabled) - let's see if the 1TB's can do the same! :)
 
PostmanPot said:
Did you ask them (Kalahari IIRC) about that?
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I dealt with them directly over a 2 month period, but no resolution. The batch numbers were different each time, so I made the assumption that either I had really bad luck or the batch of drives mine were selected from were problematic - eventually got a refund and replaced with WD's :)
 
I've had a Samsung 250Gb in a 2.5 Vivo enclosure for 2 years now. The thing is in my backpack everyday, which gets thrown around, been on the plane, in check-in luggage and it's still going. no complaints.
 
Have 2 1.5T Samsung HDD, no problems with them so far.
 
I've got an old 80gb Spinpoint SP0802N. It died though I can't remember why (could be human error). It makes a horrible clicking noise if I plug it in now.

Worked for years without problems though.

I reckon yours probably died because of the drop.
 
So if I buy one now, should I go for the Samsung or pay R100 more for Seagate?
thanks for the input so far!
 
I wouldn't touch Seagate with a barge pole. :( (But that's me)

Their 7200.11 drives are notorius for high failure rates and that's just put me off their brand all together for a while (plus their Freeagent desktop externals overheat and die). I've bought 2 500gb Western Digital Blacks and a 1tb and am quite happy so far.

I'd buy anything other than Seagate, but you'll probably be fine, maybe.
 
Techrat said:
I wouldn't touch Seagate with a barge pole. :( (But that's me)

Their 7200.11 drives are notorius for high failure rates and that's just put me off their brand all together for a while (plus their Freeagent desktop externals overheat and die). I've bought 2 500gb Western Digital Blacks and a 1tb and am quite happy so far.

I'd buy anything other than Seagate, but you'll probably be fine, maybe.
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Their new 7200.12s are brilliant, there really isn't a need to worry any more.
 
howardb said:
I dealt with them directly over a 2 month period, but no resolution. The batch numbers were different each time, so I made the assumption that either I had really bad luck or the batch of drives mine were selected from were problematic - eventually got a refund and replaced with WD's :)
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I mean did you ask them about returns? People with similar problems as yours etc.?

It's beyond me.
 
PostmanPot said:
I mean did you ask them about returns? People with similar problems as yours etc.?

It's beyond me.
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Yeah - one of the girls I chatted to (I think it was on the 3rd return) advised that there had been a few, but she wouldn't/couldn't confirm the numbers.

All they seemed to do was send to Samsung for checking, then swapped out - there was no report on each drive given to me, even when I asked for this.

I notched it up to experience...
 
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