Samsung vs. Seagate

I have only had 1 seagate fail and it was fixed and still works (old 8GB model).

In my cupboard you will only find dead dead IBMs WDs and Maxtors - they just can't take the heat when they are stacked. My seagates on the orther hand runs perfectly for years now - they have about 4mm clearance between them.
 
Samsung rocks...

But, the new Seagate 7200.12s are a big improvement over the 7200.11s (which gave Seagate a bad name). Much smaller and cooler. ;)

Previous Samsung 7200.11 500GB ran at about 32'C

My new 2 x 500GB 7200.12s at about 28'C

My Samsung 320GB OS drive at about 24'C... :eek:
 
If Samsung were that good? won't IBM, Acer, HP, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, (& on & on) be using them?
 
I bought a Samsung and I have Seagates - the one thing you notice is that the Samsung drives run cooler and quieter.

I still prefer Seagates.
 
noticed that this is not under the kalahari deal of the day ... how long u think this offer will last??
 
lucifir said:
noticed that this is not under the kalahari deal of the day ... how long u think this offer will last??
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Same her...was also wondering about that. They seem to change their prices almost daily on a few things lately....:confused:
 
submarine said:
If Samsung were that good? won't IBM, Acer, HP, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, (& on & on) be using them?
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Panasonic use Toshiba and Hitachi HDDs.

I'm running a 1 TB Seagate, 1 TB Hitachi and 1 TB Samsung (this one) atm in a Mac Pro. No problems from any of 'em. Each with 32MB cache.
For external using a Fujitsu 500GB USB powered, WD 160GB USB, and Maxtor 160GB USB. Also using mains powered Maxtor 320GB, Iomega 500GB and Seagate 500GB. The only disappointment was the Firewire 800 RAID 0 500GB LaCie Big Disk Extreme - that died once and needed RMA and then lately crashed and lost all data although the HD still seems to work 100%.
 
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Rouxenator said:
In my cupboard you will only find dead dead IBMs WDs and Maxtors - they just can't take the heat when they are stacked. My seagates on the orther hand runs perfectly for years now - they have about 4mm clearance between them.
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According to 5yr Google research heat actually does not kill hard drives and they have a boatload of HDs to study over 5yrs.
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf


http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/022607-google-disk-drives.html
http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf
 
I still want stock for myself from kalahari dam it! :p

my order is still pending... :o
 
Am going to order myself one maybe two next month that's if it's not sold out by then.
 
Rouxenator said:
I have only had 1 seagate fail and it was fixed and still works (old 8GB model).

In my cupboard you will only find dead dead IBMs WDs and Maxtors - they just can't take the heat when they are stacked. My seagates on the orther hand runs perfectly for years now - they have about 4mm clearance between them.
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Take 'em apart and get those cool magnets out :).
 
Guess what was waiting for me on my desk this morning :p
Iwaslucky.jpg

Anyone else got theirs ?

This is pretty good - 1 week since I ordered it and here it is. Should have gotten two !!! :mad:
 
Got mine too, first time I got a drive with screws and instruction booklet.

Ya, I use kalahari all the time ;p
 
Well got my Samsung from kalahari last week (or the week before) and am chuffed with it :D

Really is quiet.
 
Rouxenator said:
Guess what was waiting for me on my desk this morning :p
Iwaslucky.jpg

Anyone else got theirs ?

This is pretty good - 1 week since I ordered it and here it is. Should have gotten two !!! :mad:
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Sweet! I ordered mine on Monday and it shipped this morning apparently . So guess I will have it on Monday only.
 
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