Attention Samsung HDD owners!!!

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Stumbled on this when I was looking for a Samsung HDD Format Tool for my netbook .:(

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Samsung warranty was handled within the UK and Seagate warranty you have to send your drive back to Holland so looks like it will be Western Digital for for me from now on simply because their RMA is UK based ...

Just out of interest does anybody know if this will mean the end of the Samsung Spinpoint drives or will they just be rebadged as some new sort of Seagate model?? Seems like a waste to kill off one of the better drives ...
 
I assume the seagate direct to Holland RMA is a new thing, 2 years ago my RMA was to a UK handling address. (they probably sent it on to Holland themselves).
 
I currently have two samsung drives which are dead, (320gb F1, 1TB F3). I take it ill have to contact seagate after the 19th to see about rma'ing theese.
 
Marzipanogram said:
Samsung HDD's are excrement.

5 of their HDD's have failed on me.
Fornicate 'em.
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Agreed.

I have never had hard drive problems until I bought a Samsung. And I bought it because it had great reviews. Within less than 6 months it began to fail, stalling for many seconds on reads, and having to be constantly fixed by chkdsk with the many new bad sectors it gets every week removed from the index. My drive has been getting worse and worse, and now this:

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I feel like it was a total waste of my money. Not only do I now have to buy another hard drive at the worst possible time (Thailand floods driven the prices up loads), but it was my main hard drive and will require a lot of messing about to either copy over or reinstall Windows.

Do not buy Samsung hard drives.
 
Everyone has a story, good or bad, about any HDD manufacturer.

Just to balance out the negative posts above here's mine.

I'm currently using 12 Samsung drives, 8x1TB F3's and 4x2TB F4's, without any problems.

I've also used several more Samsung HDD's in builds for other people, also without any problems.
 
The only HDD manufacturer ive had problems with is Seagate,had several failed drives.

Buy what i will say is Seagate every time have replaced the dead drives with brand new drives and not re-certified.

Samsung drives are far too noisy for me
 
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Ive had a few seagates go pop on me as well. One western digital, but that died the same evening as the two samsungs mentioned in my earlier post. The western digital was the quietest of all drives ive owned.
 
Carth said:
Agreed.

I have never had hard drive problems until I bought a Samsung. And I bought it because it had great reviews. Within less than 6 months it began to fail, stalling for many seconds on reads, and having to be constantly fixed by chkdsk with the many new bad sectors it gets every week removed from the index. My drive has been getting worse and worse, and now this:

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I feel like it was a total waste of my money. Not only do I now have to buy another hard drive at the worst possible time (Thailand floods driven the prices up loads), but it was my main hard drive and will require a lot of messing about to either copy over or reinstall Windows.

Do not buy Samsung hard drives.
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So you had 1 harddrive die and that somehow makes a Samsung a brand to stay clear off :rolleyes: why did'nt you just RMA the drive...
 
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WD are the most unreliable drives for me, had multiple fails, including 2 raptors.
Samsung are (or were?) good, but noisy as someone else pointed out. Never had any issues with Seagate personally... but as has been stated there are horror stories out there for all makes and models. They are delicate magnetic devices after all.
 
DIABLO said:
So you had 1 harddrive die and that somehow makes a Samsung a brand to stay clear off :rolleyes:
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Well OK, so 1 hard drive failure is not a trend. It's perhaps going too far for me to decry all Samsung drives. But I know I personally won't be buying a Samsung hard drive again. You can't blame me for not putting my hand back in the fire after it gets burnt.

I've had many Western Digital drives that have lasted through many years of heavy use, and being moved around, without any problems at all. I still have a 64GB WD drive from over 10 years ago that has never had a single problem and been in continuous use. But I'd heard good things about this new Samsung drive so instead of getting another WD I thought I'd try a change and I'm understandably ****ed off at the problems it's had and the hassle it's caused. Given that the poster above me said he'd had 5 fail on him, I was inclined to agree that they should be avoided.
 
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Carth said:
Well OK, so 1 hard drive failure is not a trend. It's perhaps going to far for me to decry all Samsung drives. But I know I personally won't be buying a Samsung hard drive again. You can't blame me for not putting my hand back in the fire after it gets burnt.

I've had many Western Digital drives that have lasted through many years of heavy use, and being moved around, without any problems at all. I still have a 64GB WD drive from over 10 years ago that has never had a single problem and been in continuous use. But I'd heard good things about this new Samsung drive so instead of getting another WD I thought I'd try a change and I'm understandably ****** off at the problems it's had and the hassle it's caused. Given that the poster above me said he'd had 5 fail on him, I was inclined to agree that they should be avoided.
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And if you read all the stories of people who had failed Hitachi, Samsung, WD, Seagate etc. drives you'd end up never buying any.

Someone who's had 5 Samsung drives fail on them is either extremely unlucky or they have another problem causing the failures.
 
I wish I hadn't bought another Samsung 1tb to replace one that went just outside 3 years this one has gone too in about 6 month. Well I say gone its non booting with correctable sectors warning still mostly readable. I should have looked into why I had to to reinstall the ethernet driver.

I seems like you just pay to rent space on hard drives these days. You never fully own it.
 
Not a fan of Seagate at all, their hard drives use to be the shiz, but now they aren't, hence why they are buying Samsung's HDD division :\.
 
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