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Samsung makes HDs?

Samsung drives are usually very cool and quiet. I've never used that one myself though. Seem to be great for the HTPC kind of thing.

 
well.. my first 2 2504C (250gb) was arrived month ago. there was no posibility to format them... RMA. Next two hdd's arrived and works flawlesly... fast, quiet, cool.
Few days ago (after two weeks raid0 working) one of them just broke... hard noise from inside. Well, shit happens. i unpluged it and i was trying to install os on second one. and you know what ? there was no posibility to format it! I will NEVER EVER buy hdd from Samsung.

Tommorow should arrived Hitachi t7k250.

greetings,

Peacemaker.
 
They've been making them forever. I've never had any issues with Samsung.
 
Peacemaker said:
well.. my first 2 2504C (250gb) was arrived month ago. there was no posibility to format them... RMA. Next two hdd's arrived and works flawlesly... fast, quiet, cool.
Few days ago (after two weeks raid0 working) one of them just broke... hard noise from inside. Well, shit happens. i unpluged it and i was trying to install os on second one. and you know what ? there was no posibility to format it! I will NEVER EVER buy hdd from Samsung.

Tommorow should arrived Hitachi t7k250.

greetings,

Peacemaker.
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Just out of curiosity, where did you order them from?
 
and how did you try to format it ?

for 2 harddrives to die like that i am thinking it is something else in your system, not the harddrives.
 
I have seen one in an eMachines comp. I would go for Seagate or WD instead.
 
skeeder said:
They've been making them forever. I've never had any issues with Samsung.
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Yep.

I first broke the 2GB barrier with a Samsung drive 8 years ago! :D
 
I own a 30GB samsung drive. It's an older 5400rpm drive, and it still works perfectly after 4 years. I also bought a 200GB model for somebody. They are good drives.
 
I have a NEC 3500 that cause XP to say that the HD is bad. This just happened to me this week and it did it on 3 different HDs. It end up being a five hour saga ending with trying a known good optical player which loaded the OS no problem on one of the HD that XP said had bad sectors. I bought the NEC 3500 cheap from a Hard Forum member, I guess I forgot to ask him if the damn thing worked OK. Absence of Malice starring Paul Newman deals with this very subject of asking the all important questions. I hope I can learn to do this someday. By the way, I have two 80gb IDE Samsungs which I have reformated and reloaded alot. They continue to work fine.
 
MrGuvernment said:
and how did you try to format it ?

for 2 harddrives to die like that i am thinking it is something else in your system, not the harddrives.
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yea... i know its stramge, but that's how it was.
first two hdd's i was trying to format in raid0 first (windows cd) then one by one as single - no possibility.
There was only way to format - QUICK format, but after this, windows don't want to install (some file error).
I was trying to use disc manager and i can format all normally exept C:\.
I return them and pick up another two.
and everythink was great, but when one failed, another one also don't want to be formated.

maybe its some kind of bad luck?

anyway i will test those Hitachi. No more Samsung P120 2504C series.

greerings,

Peacemaker.

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well... maybe there is somethink with my system, but what ? I hope its not OC problem.
CPU is running @2.7 (270x10) and its cool and stable. i got 92cm fans on both hdd's, no idea what's going on here.
 
I have four (4) SP160's (the SATA version) running in RAID-5 on my server. One of them broke after ~2 years. I have a parallel version, which also broke after ~2 years. So out of a total of five drives, 2 broke in less than 3 years. Though I must admit that my environment is pretty harsh.
 
for what its worth i've had an 80gb pata samsung for a couple of years and its worked perfectly. out of 2 wd, 2 maxtor and the samsung in the last ~3 years the only failure was 1 of the maxtors.
 
I have 4 250GB sata drives and 2 160GB drives for awhile with no problems, I don't think their failure rate is any higher than any other brand.
 
I've had a Samsung SATA for a couple years now and absolutely love it.
Like the post above mine...the blessed hdd is all but silent.
I'll be getting a new one soon cause I like to replace my hardware before it ages...just like the wives/girlfriends... :D
 
I have seen a similar problem but with other hard drives (i.e. try to format as a raid set, something goes wrong, can't format as a single drive). Each time a zero-write/LLF fixed the problem as I was then able to format the drives individually, or in the raid set. I want to say it has something to do with the raid array meta data getting corrupt and causing things to look screwy. I have seen an 80GB drive, that had originally been in a stripe, consistently show up as ~150GB drive during the windows install process. It wasn't until a zero-write was performed that anything besides the BIOS would detect it properly.
 
I have been running 2 samsung sata drives for over a year and really like them. VERY quiet compared with the WD drives I've owned in the past
 
techie81 said:
I have seen one in an eMachines comp. I would go for Seagate or WD instead.
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You'd go for WD over Samsung!? You've obviously never owned a Samsung and are thus not qualified to say such a thing.

drizzt: I had 2 out of 3 WD Caviar SEs break in < 2 years without being in a particularly harsh environment
 
Samsung makes lots of quality products. Their HDD are quiet, and they work well. I havent had a problem with any of the ones I have owned.

Other items they make are excellent as well. When I got out of the Army in 1987, I brought home a Samsung VCR from Korea. It was their cheap model, got it in the PX. My mother replaced it in 1999. It was still working fine for over 10 years.
 
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