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Samsung 250g SATAII for $80

hi i've had to return 3 samsung drives twice in the last year. i got them from microcenter they have a 3 year warranty. they all developed bad sectors, then one woudl freeze the pc, don't know how to explain it but when it was plugged in the detecting IDE would hang.

i have to keep rma'ing them. I have one next to me which will be on its 3rd try.

DONT BUY THIS JUNK! IM SERIAL!
 
Originally posted by: Emulex
hi i've had to return 3 samsung drives twice in the last year. i got them from microcenter they have a 3 year warranty. they all developed bad sectors, then one woudl freeze the pc, don't know how to explain it but when it was plugged in the detecting IDE would hang.

i have to keep rma'ing them. I have one next to me which will be on its 3rd try.

DONT BUY THIS JUNK! IM SERIAL!
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You're serial?

Maybe you just have bad luck with these drives then..I have a few friends with them and they seem to be quite happy. These are some of the quietest drives available, and for a great price too.
 
Originally posted by: Emulex
hi i've had to return 3 samsung drives twice in the last year. i got them from microcenter they have a 3 year warranty. they all developed bad sectors, then one woudl freeze the pc, don't know how to explain it but when it was plugged in the detecting IDE would hang.

i have to keep rma'ing them. I have one next to me which will be on its 3rd try.

DONT BUY THIS JUNK! IM SERIAL!
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First I was thinking... Maybe hes so frusterated he's becaome a killer.. then I was thinking... over hard drives?? No, it must be that he really loves to bathe in milk... Then I just figured that the "ou" he ment to type he simply substatuted for an "a" because he's from New York and he confused his left ring finger: "s" for his right ring finger: "L" because he's dyslexic. Which naturally is easy to understand and hence must be the case.
 
R j00 serios j00 cannot b serios!


I was going to get this off Newegg first but opted for the WD 16MB 250 - now that it failed on me I wish I'd have gotten the Samsung.
 
i've learned my lesson. i use seagate. no problems since..

it just so happened it was not easy to procure a reasonable deal one sat/sunday that microcenter was open, and the prices always seem hot for no rebate.

try it. maybe you'll have better luck. I've go a 250gb for sale 😉 Samsung special
 
I all of a sudden in the last 2 days have been getting a freeze at IDE detection myself. I have 2 of these drives. Until reading this I wouldnt have thought it was the hard drive but now I am second guessing that. after hitting reset system comes up fine and it doesnt lock the system hard as I hit the Bios Setup button and the system goes into the Bios so it probably is one of the hard drives.
 
Stear clear of this drive, I have 2 that have gone belly up on me now, Checked in the event log and found out that both drives are having issues with bad writes and not responding errors. Hoping the egg will take the RMA for refund as Im a few days over do, Due to their online RMA system being down.
 
Some people have various HDs, and get years of service out of them...
Others burn through drives like they are cheap light bulbs...
Hmm... :roll:

BTW, I like Samsung HDs, but this isn't really a "Hot Deal". 😛
 
Been using Seagates for quiet operation for maybe three years or so...bought four of these for a terabyte of separate drives and all four are quieter than two of my seagates. There was a very slight speed loss moving from 7200.8's to this, but I don't have NCQ, SATA-II, or 3.0gb/s, and having 8 discreet partitions has been much more beneficial for my audio/video work.

Very awesome drives.
 
I've heard lots of people having issues with OEM hard drives that were ordered from Newegg as of late; (most/all brands) Perhaps they don't package them especially well or something.

Not looking to sidetrack, it's one more possibility as far as regular occurancess go though.
 
Originally posted by: MIDIman
Been using Seagates for quiet operation for maybe three years or so...bought four of these for a terabyte of separate drives and all four are quieter than two of my seagates. There was a very slight speed loss moving from 7200.8's to this, but I don't have NCQ, SATA-II, or 3.0gb/s, and having 8 discreet partitions has been much more beneficial for my audio/video work.

Very awesome drives.
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These are not awsome hard drives, The guy above me had the exact same problems as me with these drives. Either there is some sort of compatabilty problem with the 3G speed or these drives are just lemons, I would have never suspected the drives if the guy that posted it first stated he had the problems I did. I would have figured the motherboard but this hopefully saved me pulling the motherboard out again. As I said in my other post I would stear clear of this drive. Bought myself the WD SE16 drives over this. Heres hoping my drive problems go away. It takes about 10 mins for my NEW system to come up now as the drive keeps timing out trying to spit out the data. Im hoping it just last long enough so I can ghost my load over to the new drive next week.
 
Originally posted by: Yoshi911
Originally posted by: Emulex
hi i've had to return 3 samsung drives twice in the last year. i got them from microcenter they have a 3 year warranty. they all developed bad sectors, then one woudl freeze the pc, don't know how to explain it but when it was plugged in the detecting IDE would hang.

i have to keep rma'ing them. I have one next to me which will be on its 3rd try.

DONT BUY THIS JUNK! IM SERIAL!
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First I was thinking... Maybe hes so frusterated he's becaome a killer.. then I was thinking... over hard drives?? No, it must be that he really loves to bathe in milk... Then I just figured that the "ou" he ment to type he simply substatuted for an "a" because he's from New York and he confused his left ring finger: "s" for his right ring finger: "L" because he's dyslexic. Which naturally is easy to understand and hence must be the case.
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Either that or he's quoting the South Park that was on recently. I'll go with the latter...
 
There's a 300gb SATA2 Seagate available for $95 and a 500gb IDE Seagate for $189 on Newegg as well. I'm looking for an HD for an HTPC I'm building and have heard that the 300gb Seagate is rather loud which is bad for an HTPC. I saw someone mention that this drive was pretty quiet, anyone else notice this? Would this be a better choice for an HTPC than the Seagate?
 
I've had a couple of the IDE version of this 250GB HD. They do run cool and quiet, just like the reviews say. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: dhkkim
bump for samsung.

i love my samsung hard drives 🙂
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Oh yeah. These things don't compare when it comes to sound. It's near silent operation is 2nd to none.
 
These are not awsome hard drives...
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I love how one failure deems a drive completely crap nowadays. Remember that everyone's needs are different. I needed something that was absolutely as quiet as possible for my audio work, but I needed multiple hard drives. While its easy to get one or even two hard drives relatively "quiet," I now have four that are nearly silent.

I've owned literally dozens of hard drives throughout my life, and this was my reasoning behind purchasing the Samsungs. Out of all of the drives I've ever owned, spanning across some 15 years, the only drives that have ever died on me were two different Maxtors and one Western Digital.

I've been using these Samsungs for over six months now without a hitch. I've been using 10 different Seagates for the past four years or so and not a one died.

By having so much space and so many "fast spots" for my audio and video work - FOR ME - they are awesome! And as the price goes down, I plan on buying two more to finish off the rest of the Seagates...

 
Originally posted by: MIDIman
These are not awsome hard drives...
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I love how one failure deems a drive completely crap nowadays. Remember that everyone's needs are different. I needed something that was absolutely as quiet as possible for my audio work, but I needed multiple hard drives. While its easy to get one or even two hard drives relatively "quiet," I now have four that are nearly silent.

I've owned literally dozens of hard drives throughout my life, and this was my reasoning behind purchasing the Samsungs. Out of all of the drives I've ever owned, spanning across some 15 years, the only drives that have ever died on me were two different Maxtors and one Western Digital.

I've been using these Samsungs for over six months now without a hitch. I've been using 10 different Seagates for the past four years or so and not a one died.

By having so much space and so many "fast spots" for my audio and video work - FOR ME - they are awesome! And as the price goes down, I plan on buying two more to finish off the rest of the Seagates...
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I wish you luck in that purchase, But 2 out of 2 bad drives in one purchase pretty much sums up the last time I will buy that type of drive. This will be the first time I have ever had a hard drive problem in 20 years of buying drives. So you understand MY feelings about this drive now. And not being the only one with the same issues in this thread put it at a crap shoot of a chance of getting a good or bad drive.
 
Just noticed a new review from storagereview.com that includes the 2504c. Though SPCR's is a better alternative for more accurate noise measurements.

Originally posted by: BS
I wish you luck in that purchase, But 2 out of 2 bad drives in one purchase pretty much sums up the last time I will buy that type of drive.
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No problem - your point has been WELL taken!!

Out of curiosity, I pulled up the reliability database on storagereview.com. Out of 44 users, 5 report failures. Comparatively - the SE16 (WD2500KS) shows 5 failures out of 36 reports.

Nothing against your purchase at all as we all know polls are quite unintelligent, particularly when the grouping is <50 people out of hundres of thousands - just purely an observation!

In fact, just browsing through the database...very few, if any, brand/models have NO failures. The fact is, these things break, and its unfortunate how much we all rely on them sometimes.


 
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