Samsung harddrives

[sbudzynski]

How do you all feel about samsung sata harddrives? They are slightly cheaper then WD and Seagates and I just had THE LAST WD I will ever purchase die on me.

On newegg the samsung harddrives got pretty good reviews.

Thanks for your input

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[kestrel1]

These days most hard drives appear to be much of a muchness. I recently had to change a failed Samsung IDE HD that was only two years old. I replaced this with a Western Digital. I mostly go for Western Digital or Maxtor drives, but I have had both types go down on me. I think it is down too luck. I have HD's that are very old & work with no problem, they are slow & small, but still work. You could get a new drive & it could fail at mor go on for years. The best thing to do is always make sure that your important data is backed up on a regular basis.

 

[LawnBoy]

We've lost many Maxtor sata drives in the Dell GX280s, but we've also found that a couple of months after the disk crashes the M/B goes out as well. It may be a problem with the controllers instead of the drives.

For whatever it might be worth...

 

[sbudzynski]

well I got a 3 year warranty on that sucker, so as long as I back up I guess I'll be okay.

The samsung was a little cheaper so hopefully luck will be on my side this time around!

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[kestrel1]

You will probably be fine & if you have a three year warranty you are covered if the drive goes. As long as your data is backed up you should be fine. I back my data up to the network which is running on a raid array, but this is also backed up weekly, so it should be OK.

 

[paparazi]

I like samsungs! as good as anything out there! what can I say.
We have had good reliability with the ones we have sold, a low return rate compared to Maxtors and WD's or so it seems.
Martin

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[Nelviticus]

I subscribe to PC Pro magazine here in the UK and the Samsung Spinpoint 250GB is their A-list hard drive. Plus points in the review were quietness, warranty, reliability and cost per GB.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[sbudzynski]

Nice

thanks guys, it should be here tonight!

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[JimInKS]

I had a bad bunch of Maxstors and switched to samsung sata drives about a year and a half ago. Seemed like a good value and I have always had pretty good luck with samsung products.

Then had a couple of drives fail, and the drives were not all that quiet. It did seem to vary some between drives, some almost seeming like the platter was a little out of balance. Bought a couple of samsung DVD drives that worked ok, but the build quality just seemed "cheap".

So now am going with Seagate and have been very happy so far. Run almost totally quiet and very cool, plus a 5 year warranty!

Mostly buying this model:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148107