Samsung F1 1TB Drives, I must have the worst luck or these drives SUCK

im not saying to anyone if they work for you then great, but my experiance with them has completely turned me off.

to me there cheap and unreliable.
 
I have one 1tb and 1 640 F1 and they are great far better then most of the drives i have had before and i know others who have them and also not a problem.
 
This is a futile debate - The drives are reliable unless you happen to have owned one that failed? What? But the chances of having one fail on you tomorrow are fairly small anyway [thankfully, and the same goes for any make of drive]. You got to look at the wider picture though, and weigh the probablility of failure not just based on your own experience. It may never happen to you, hope it doesn't, but if others are reporting problems then there's a greater chance bad luck may come your way too.
 
own 1 that has failed ?

i have got 3 bad drives from ocuk every time i have ordered one they failed.
i dont want a 4th failure !!! so in turn im going western digital black.

just hope this drive is just as fast as the sammy, im sure it will :)
 
A broken drive after being tested by OcUK prior to being sent out? That screams malhandling by the courier to me.

Anyway, good luck with the WD black.
 
I'd just like to mention here in case anyone's using Samsung's HUTIL 2.10 diagnostic utility, it has known issues with the 1TB F1 - it's likely to return false positives when checking for surface errors (this is also why so many complaints about the drive were raised on the Newegg forums shortly after it went on the market).

That's not to say the drives all have a clean bill of health, but before assuming the worst, run ESTool instead. :)
 
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so is it a mechanical or FW fault?
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If you're talking to me, I'm not quite sure what you're asking... is what a mechanical or FW fault?

I was pointing out an incompatibility between HUTIL and the 1TB F1 (and possibly others in the F1 range), which might make the drive appear faulty when in fact it isn't.
 
4 duds in a row suggests it can't be the drive. If even 2% of these drives were broken on arrival there would be uproar.

The chances of getting 2 in a row that were faulty would be 1 in 2,500. The chances of 3 in a row would be 1 in 125,000, the chance of getting 4 faulty in a row...? One in 6,250,000

I'd say there's an enormously larger chance that something in your own system is causing the problem. Either BIOS trashing the drives. A faulty cable. A dodgy power supply. A dodgy power supply cable. A dodgy overclock. A motherboard fault...
 
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4 duds in a row suggests it can't be the drive. If even 2% of these drives were broken on arrival there would be uproar.

The chances of getting 2 in a row that were faulty would be 1 in 2,500. The chances of 3 in a row would be 1 in 125,000, the chance of getting 4 faulty in a row...? One in 6,250,000

I'd say there's an enormously larger chance that something in your own system is causing the problem. Either BIOS trashing the drives. A faulty cable. A dodgy power supply. A dodgy power supply cable. A dodgy overclock. A motherboard fault...
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or his local delivery guy playing football with all his parcels.
 
Well whatever it is i think we all agree that the chances of 4 drives being doa and one of them tested prior to sending by OcUK means there is a serious problem elsewhere and before slapping in another drive maybe worth checking out the system just to eliminate that as a problem.
 
Wow Virus, your having the EXACT same problems as me:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17979886

I taken two tests, but found memory errors (not relating to my RAM in anyway).
Transferring large files to/from my PC, I found myself getting blue screens or the PC rebooting.
Ive just raised a new RMA with rexo and will be posting these tomorrow, I wish I had bought Western digital or something now instead :(
I emailed the test errors to both samsung and their approved dealer, and neither of them returned a single sentance, offered any support but instead told me how to use the RMA service. So bugger it, im sending both disks off to them, and I shall NOT being paying a penny if they find one of the drives to be fine, that is shoddy customer service.

With that in mind, I have 4 spinpoint F1's (1TB) in my NAS. I had one fail on the raid5 array which was a pain, but after removing that disk for repair, another disk failed which lost me the array. I sent the whole lot off to be recovered and thankfully it all was. Ive not had any problems with my nas in the last 3/4 months (touch wood).

I previously had two sammys in a raid0 in my PC, which the raid array kept falling over. I want to throw them out :(

Im sorry you have the same problem, but im also glad to find out its not just me :)
 
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Its probably just bad luck, I have always purchased Maxtor hard drives (Last 8 years) and never had one die yet, but I have read many bad reviews about Maxtors and people getting failures.

Ill keep buying Maxtors until one fails but so far that hasn't happened. On the other hand I have had a few WDs die.
 
Id be very interested to know how your WD drive works when it arrives. Im in favor of the "delivery guy is a ham fisted goon" theory currently :p
 
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