Samsung Spinpoint F3 or Hitachi H3IK10003272SP?

[UnlimitedMP]

Hitachi H3IK10003272SP $50 after 15MIR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...lickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16822145368

or

Samsung Spinpoint F3 $60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

I can't seem to find much about the hitachi but I'm worried about the failure stories of the samsung.

It would be used as the main OS.

Your educated opinions?

 

[Notleh]

The failure rate on the Samsungs seems to relate to the packing and shipping method. Fedex failure rate = nonexistant, UPS failure rate= fairly high. I have bought 6 of them in the last 2 months and all were perfect so far. The first 2 from newegg were pretty shitty packaging; minimal bubble wrap in a cardboard wrapper. In the same shitty shipment as the drives I had an OEM cpu floating free in a plastic clamshell (bent pins anyone?). The last 4 (2 separate shipments) have been much improved.

I think that someone from newegg RMA walked over to the shipping dock and kicked all their asses because the packaging is MUCH better.

I am running it as main OS drive (plus backup) on 3 systems and no probs so far. 116MB avg on HD tune consistently across all 6.

no idea on the Hitachi.

 

[vicsrealms]

I think that someone from newegg RMA walked over to the shipping dock and kicked all their asses because the packaging is MUCH better.

Well, I hope that is the case. The last couple purchases I have had come in from NewEgg and UPS looked like they had been through WW3. Thank goodness EVGA packs their video cards fairly well when I bought the 470 in June. My e-mail to NewEgg and UPS was not something they would want to show their children.

 

[Notleh]

My e-mail to NewEgg and UPS was not something they would want to show their children.

Lol, I would love to see that. I Ripped newegg a new asshole for shipping my oem cpu in a plain plastic clamshell...which resulted in bent pins.