Samsung F1 1TB - SMART Error!

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Hello to everyone on the forum. I have a little dilema. One of my backup drives, a Samsung F1 1TB, which acts as an offline mirror to another drive, a 1TB Hitachi, has decided to produce a SMART error at boot time for the few days.

It is a year and a half old, I tend to do occational incremental backups to it and it currently holds 850GB of data. It isn't worked very hard at all and spends most of its life in a trayless hard drive caddy or dock.

I booted my machine with the ESTOOL provided by Samsung and it told me that the drive was giving the following error:

SMART Error: Service code: AJ38

Which apparently means SEEK NOISE. So if the drive has failed on seek noise that could indicate that the drive heads are about to fail.

However, I am puzzelled. The drive doesn't make any noise out of the ordinary, I have re-formatted it and piled all the data back on and it seems fine. It never gives me any read errors or problems. How much trust should I put on SMART?

Lastly, is a SMART failure going to be accepted by Samsung so I can exchange the drive under warrenty?

Thanks in advance.
 
Excellent. I will do that then. Thanks for the replies. It is about time its happened to me because I have managed to go through the last decade or so without a hard drive ever failing on me. lol. I am just glad I got into the routine of backing up.
 
Happy said:
One of my RAID 0 F1 1TB drives died about 10 minutes ago :/
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It's not looking good for Samsung F1s in the reliablity stakes is it. Hmmmm.


You see, for years I have used Western Digitals. Then I switched to a Samsung 160GB IDE for my laptop, the single platter version and I have owned WD desktop drives since my first one back in 1996 which was a 1.2GB Caviar......which is STILL going! I even have an old Quantum 40MB that still runs. lol. Insane. I've not heard anything bad about the F3s mind you so perhaps those of us that have suffered failures have just been unlucky.
 
Had one 750GB Samsung F1 fail after 6months approx and a Samsung 80GB laptop drive fail within 1 month.:(

I buy WD now.:)
 
Happy said:
That's why I spotted them @ £55 for 1TB they are very attractive!
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Well, funny you mention that...I've just acquired a Samsung F3 as a replacement drive for my failing F1 for around £61. I will probably be ebaying the F1 I get back through warrenty and sell it reasonably as a 'new' drive.

I was temped by the Samsung F2s...but then I though about how much data I've got to copy back onto the new drive and I know that the F2s cannot match the F3s in terms of speed...................and...........I'm a little impatient. :-)
 
My F1 touch wood so far has been whirring away everyday of its life with no complaints.

Ive seen enoung toshiba and seagate drives fail to know not to buy one ;)
 
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