samsung hard drives

[v8_h8r]

ive always been a western digital maxtor kinda guy but a 120gb samsung 7200rpm 8mb cache has come to me for 50$ never used. ne one had ne problems w/ these aka ibm pos or r they good give me some feedback yo

 

[frostyflakes]

had my 160gig samsung ide 7200 rpm drive for approx 3 months now
use it for data mp3s movies etc etc
no problems with it, fast quiet

 

[MaMMa]

if you dont want it i'll take it i'm serious

 

[v8_h8r]

im guessing its good then....sweet...appreciate it guys

 

[zandor]

Just check out StorageReview.com. They've got a reliability survey you can look at.
The survey says they're not as good as some other models, but no, they're no a total POS like IBM 60GXP and 75GXP disks.

BTW, the Hitachi/IBM 180GXP and 120GXP models are rated pretty well. Until the 60/75 fiasco IBM was actually considered one of the best manufacturers. The problem was a design defect, not sloppy manufacturing. Of course, I still haven't bought an IBM drive since that happened and I had 2 60GXPs puke on me at work. (f'n Dell. Gave me a DeathStar)

I'm a Seagate SCSI/FC-AL fan now. It doesn't actually have anything to do with Seagate drives being better (though they do make good drives), I just really like Seatools Enterprise. Parallel diagnostic run on 10 HDs at once... mmm.

Personally I have no experience with Samsung HDs.

 

[Met-AL]

ne one had ne problems w/ these aka ibm pos or r they good give me some feedback yo

Samsung drive's aren't IBM drives. It was Hitachi that bought out the IBM hard drives.

 

[Elledan]

Any new HDD made by Samsung, Hitachi or Seagate is fast, silent and reliable.

Maxtor and WD HDDs are pretty much the exact opposite in my experience.

 

[TheAcorn]

I have some old, el-cheapo Samsung 6-8 GB HDs, and they all still run. Years old - I mean, they came with some K6/2 workstations purchased in 1998 or so.

I'm currently shopping around for some mass-data storage, and if Seagate wasn't my preferred (yeah, there aren't any Seagates in my main rig, I know) and the 'egg didn't have SATA 200GB 8MBs for about $100 or so, Samsung's new drives are really appealing in price/storage, and from my experience with their drives in general, I doubt they'll have any reliability issues.

 

[Doctor X]

I have had 3x160G samsungs for about 2 weeks now. Very fast and quiet. I am pleased so far. Beats the crap out of my 120G maxtors.

Enjoy!

Doctor X

 

[Deleted member 89137]

I bought a 120 gig serial ATA hdd recently to replace 2 80 gig seagates in RAID 0. (seagates were a year old and died from overheating) It performs great, loading times in far cry are about the same, but its a lot quieter.

 

[v8_h8r]

thanks!!