Samsung spinpt f3

[thestrangebrew1]

how can u tell if the following is from Seagate or Samsung:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22152185-L0D


tempted to order but the 1 yr warranty freaks me out.

 

[blastingcap]

I've had drives go bad from Seagate, Samsung, and WD, but thankfully all of them came with 3+ year warranties.

Hard drives are going to fail eventually... the Samsung that failed on me was a F3 spinpoint. This is why warranties are very important and imho we should boycott manufacturers who give anything less than 3 year warranties. That is the only way companies like Seagate will listen to consumers--if you refuse to buy 1-year warrantied hard drives.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Yea this definitely worries me. It's actually for my bro-in-law who's running out of room on his 320gb drive and can't afford much right now. I haven't had any problems with any of my drives so far (Maxtor, Seagate or Samsung) but a hd with 1 yr warranty is pretty lame. For the price, I'm seriously considering ordering it for him though. He's new to pc gaming and wants to get all sorts of games to start playing lol.

 

[Mem]

how can u tell if the following is from Seagate or Samsung:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22152185-L0D


tempted to order but the 1 yr warranty freaks me out.

Its pot luck,I had a F3 Samsung drive OEM with 1 year warranty and it died last Sunday just outside warranty,anyway I got one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840&name=Internal-Hard-Drives ,its fast and even more silent then my ex F3.


I have a couple of old IBM/Maxtors still going strong,around 10 years both had 1 year OEM warranty so you could say I got more then my money's worth.

 

[blastingcap]

Yea this definitely worries me. It's actually for my bro-in-law who's running out of room on his 320gb drive and can't afford much right now. I haven't had any problems with any of my drives so far (Maxtor, Seagate or Samsung) but a hd with 1 yr warranty is pretty lame. For the price, I'm seriously considering ordering it for him though. He's new to pc gaming and wants to get all sorts of games to start playing lol.

There were two studies a few years ago that looked at consumer HDDs; Google's was the famous one but the other one I read up on the other day. Bottom line is that you can expect an annualized failure rate of 2-8% in the first one to three years for consumer HDDs, maybe higher if you are in a dusty environment or have lots of vibrations or something and not in a server room. And failure rates just keep going up as drives age.