PSA

[JM Aggie08]

In the past 4 years, I have replaced my the SAME 160 gig samsung drive 3 times.

Tonight, it lagged my entire system, crashed it, rebooted. Poor windows tried to sort the fvcked indexes, but even that ended in utter failure.

This baby gets a few M-80s tomorrow.

cliffs:
-DON'T PURCHASE SAMSUNG HARD DRIVES

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Yeah..had a Samsung Spinpoint back in the day. From day one, constant clicking and had issues finding data quickly.

 

[Dacalo]

I have had mine for about 4 years and it's running strong...

 

[Sphexi]

I've had something like two dozen Samsung drives over the last few years, not one complaint. Heck, I have two in this computer right now, one of them is about 3 years old, still going strong.

 

[FrozenCanadian]

I really like samsung HD's there Cd roms will never make the warranty though.

 

[Steve]

PSA: One or two people have had some bad luck with one brand name. Therefore, nobody should buy their products ever.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: Steve
PSA: One or two people have had some bad luck with one brand name. Therefore, nobody should buy their products ever.

Hold on, lemme log into a new account and post..that'll be three. (I kid Mods)

 

[FrozenCanadian]

Originally posted by: Steve
PSA: One or two people have had some bad luck with one brand name. Therefore, nobody should buy their products ever.

I went through 4 Samsung CD-Roms in a year and my 5th is ready for dead so don't totally dismiss there problems. Like I said there HDD's work fine.

Just to clarify they were all replacement CD-Roms under warranty. I will never ever buy a samsung DVD or CD player/burner but my next HDD could be a samsung.

Edit: one of the cd drives shot a piece of Diablo 2 LOD out so fast I'd be dead it I didn't sit 1 foot from it.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: Steve
PSA: One or two people have had some bad luck with one brand name. Therefore, nobody should buy their products ever.

my thoughts exactly

 

[Tiamat]

never had any problems with mine. Nidec motor for nice quiet seeking and idle noise.

 

[dighn]

mine works well. but there's something wrong with the connector that causes the HD to be not recognized at times requireing me to jiggle the connector around a bit. these SATA connectors are neat but they feel unreliable.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
Edit: one of the cd drives shot a piece of Diablo 2 LOD out so fast I'd be dead it I didn't sit 1 foot from it.

On the plus side, that would have made for a unique obituary.

 

[Shawn]

Hmm, I have a 500GB Samsung that I got about 6 months ago. Has worked fine so far.

 

[DaveSimmons]

PSA: every drive brand has people with stories like this.

Objectively, Samsung hard drives are the best design for low noise, low heat, and low power use. Look at StorageReview.com and SilentPCReview coverage of them.

They are not less reliable than other brands, and I've not seen any wave of posts of similar experiences, like there was with Maxtor a few years ago or when Seagate seemed to hit an unreliable patch a couple of years ago.

I've had a Samsung drive fail myself after a couple of years, but I've also had Maxtor, Hitachi drives die too. Almost all drives fail eventually if you use them daily.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
PSA: every drive brand has people with stories like this.

Objectively, Samsung hard drives are the best design for low noise, low heat, and low power use. Look at StorageReview.com and SilentPCReview coverage of them.

They are not less reliable than other brands, and I've not seen any wave of posts of similar experiences, like there was with Maxtor a few years ago or when Seagate seemed to hit an unreliable patch a couple of years ago.

I've had a Samsung drive fail myself after a couple of years, but I've also had Maxtor, Hitachi drives die too. Almost all drives fail eventually if you use them daily.

Actually research by Google and CMU have showed that heat and workload have no correlation at all to fail rates. They didnt however name any specific brands or models for exceptionally high failure rates, they did however say that some brands failed significantly more than others.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
never had any problems with mine. Nidec motor for nice quiet seeking and idle noise.

i can't wait for the 1TB model to be released

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Actually research by Google and CMU have showed that heat and workload have no correlation at all to fail rates.

Yes, but didn't they also keep the tested temperatures within "acceptable temperature ranges"? I recall reading their report, and then talking with several other people about how it wasn't as conclusive as many thought...

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Actually research by Google and CMU have showed that heat and workload have no correlation at all to fail rates.

Yes, but didn't they also keep the tested temperatures within "acceptable temperature ranges"? I recall reading their report, and then talking with several other people about how it wasn't as conclusive as many thought...

Well its pretty obvious that any device is going to fail if its running at 130C...

Lets compare Kia and Lexus by seeing how they run after being dropped from an plane @ 35000 feet.

 

[needalife]

Samsung drives rock... !

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Steve
PSA: One or two people have had some bad luck with one brand name. Therefore, nobody should buy their products ever.

:thumbsup:

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Aluvus

Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
Edit: one of the cd drives shot a piece of Diablo 2 LOD out so fast I'd be dead it I didn't sit 1 foot from it.

On the plus side, that would have made for a unique obituary.

Rofl.

 

[Pepsi90919]

this reminds me of when people were screaming bloody murder about this one model of WDC drive (1GB back in 1997) and WDC was good enough to replace everybody's with the updated 2-platter verison of the drive.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
PSA: every drive brand has people with stories like this.

Objectively, Samsung hard drives are the best design for low noise, low heat, and low power use. Look at StorageReview.com and SilentPCReview coverage of them.

They are not less reliable than other brands, and I've not seen any wave of posts of similar experiences, like there was with Maxtor a few years ago or when Seagate seemed to hit an unreliable patch a couple of years ago.

I've had a Samsung drive fail myself after a couple of years, but I've also had Maxtor, Hitachi drives die too. Almost all drives fail eventually if you use them daily.

Actually research by Google and CMU have showed that heat and workload have no correlation at all to fail rates. They didnt however name any specific brands or models for exceptionally high failure rates, they did however say that some brands failed significantly more than others.

yup
http://www.dansdata.com/gz075.htm

 

[OverVolt]

Dunno, could be a bad PSU giving crappy voltages. Could be a bad HDD controller corrupting data. All because you keep replacing it with the same type of drive doesn't 100% mean its the drives fault. Maybe there is case vibration, maybe heat builds up there, the list goes on.

 

[lokiju]

Maxtor has given me the most issues personally.