Spinpoint F1

[Rimsy]

My F1 750gb died a few weeks after purchase, still waitin for a replacement a week after RMA'ing it =/

Where did you send it? Rexo (samsungs uk hard drive returns arm) say they do not accept OEM drives, and since OCUK appear to be selling OEM drives they wont take it.
Did OCUK take it back?

 

[chippy08]

I just been today to buy 2 and now im starting to feel sick i hope it is reliable as you cant keep backing up 2Tb all the time.

 

[Atom]

I keep seeing all these threads about bad F1s. I have been running 3 F1s for approx 5 months and they have been running fine. I did have to rma one to Rexo that was showing a smart error but I had a replacement within 3 days.

I have a 640gb WD and a 640GB F1 and I use the F1 due to it running 6 degrees cooler in the same enviroment..

 

[Stonedofmoo]

I keep seeing all these threads about bad F1s. I have been running 3 F1s for approx 5 months and they have been running fine.

Aye, but so was mine until last night. Then it corrupted the entire contents out of the blue. Needless to say my confidence in it has been shaken.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Oh and referring back to my original post, Samsungs ESTool has just given my 1Tb drive a clean bill of health after it lost all the partition information.

I'm highly suspicious it actually runs effective tests because each F1 that is corrupting it's data is being given the green light.