Time to try Western Digital?

shahpor

shahpor

shahpor

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Hi all.

Just had my 3rd Samsung hard drive failure in a month. :(

First, one of my new 1Tb F3's was faulty on arrival, so was swapped out.

Then a less than 1 year old 1Tb F1 that I had started making some funny noises.

And now, the brand new replacement F1 sounded so bad that I pull it out immediately!

Safe to say, Samsung has not shown itself well here.

So I was thinking of this instead:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-226-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

A little more expensive, but the 5 year warranty gives me hope that perhaps it will last a while.

Now, the thing is, the main reason for getting the Samsung was noise. I like the fact they are so quiet.

So what are the WD's like, noise wise?

Thanks.
 
What did I do?

For the F3 and the replacement F1, I plugged them in. Thats it.

Didn't get as far as formatting or partitioning.
 
Unlikely since I have had this PSU for a while and have had no problems. That includes the replacement F3 that I got alongside the one that arrived ok.

As for the replacement F1 that arrived today, the scraping noise it was making suggests it wasn't a power problem.
 
I would buy the drive you linked without a doubt. Western Digital make very reliable drives im my experience and that's a fast drive as well.
 
Depends which model you get. I have an REII, so it's pretty loud, but I'm sure a Green would be near silent.

Perhaps someone with a WD Black can clarify.
 
Can vouch for the wd black drives. They are quick and near silent drives.won't
be disapointed with this drive.
 
shahpor said:
To be fair, it isn't too bad compared to the Samsung F3 in those tests.

I am also assuming that it uses 500Gb platters?
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For some reason I didn't think to look at the rest of the review, the one they use has 333GB ones hence the much slower performance. I just think I read somewhere that they now used the 500GB ones like the 2TB black but it may have just been someone asking now I think about it.
 
Same here with regards Samsung drives. Had 3 fail and the 3rd replacement 640gb shook my case to bits, thats why they are cheap. It was fun throwing it under a road roller thou.

All my drives are WD now with 1 Seagate LP.
 
I am thinking of changing my Samsung Spin point 500 GB for a WD drive, but which one?
I have a SATA II drive now, If I recall my mobo has SATA 3Gbps ports so the WD 6Gbps of the SATA III drives would either be not compatable?

Update...after a little reading I have just ordered a WD 1TB SATA II Black, lets see how much better it is over my 2 year old Samsung Spin point SATA II 500GB HDD.
 
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