which 1.5TB

SiD the Turtle said:
Regarding mass failures, occasionally there are just bad batches. Therefore if a retailer gets a bad batch, there will be a 'wave' of negative comments.

That's why if I'm buying more than one for a RAID set, I'll buy different ones from different retailers to spread the risk of getting a bad batch.
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Regarding the comments I mentioned if you read them, they were mostly not failures on arrival. The first 9 pages are nothing but praise. The following 5 pages are almost all failures after a few months of use (many from the same people). I believe there was a known flaw with the F1s but I am having trouble finding it again. Either way I just didnt want to take the risk. got 6 1.5tb Seagates quite a while ago now and still working fine. I have not heard anything about the other samsungs in that regard (It perhaps tarnished their reputation with me, though).

On the subject of bad batches, that may be true but I have not been able to find failures on that scale mentioned on any other drives, which is quite telling.
 
Anth said:
To add on the failure argument.

I have owned a 750GB Samsung F1 - Perfect.
3 x 1TB F1s - All Perfect.
1 x 1TB F3 - Perfect
2 x 1.5TB - one of them after just over a month of ownership had a serious problem and needed to be RMA'd to a competitor store where on testing they found a fault with the drive and are in the process of sending out a replacement to me.

So out of owning a whole bunch of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Toshiba, Hitatchi and Samsung drives.

This is the only drive I have ever needed to RMA. And am annoyed as return postage for the drive was not cheap.

So does this mean as like the quoted above *buyer forum post, I can say Samsungs are good or poor drives? As every other Samsung drive I have owned has been fantastic and wiped the floor in terms of performance of ever other drive I own.
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You can often claim back postage costs if you ask.

I've had a couple of Samsung HDD's. One is over 4 years old now and still fine. My new SP-F3 is much much quieter and faster though - that's progress for you :-).
 
Hoodlum said:
Regarding the comments I mentioned if you read them, they were mostly not failures on arrival. The first 9 pages are nothing but praise. The following 5 pages are almost all failures after a few months of use (many from the same people).
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I'm not talking about failures on arrival, I'm talking about a bad batch, where a manufacturing fault means that the drives are way more likely to fail.
 
mikewebb said:
What do you do with them? :D
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RMA'd and been too scared to touch the replacements beyond sticking them in a RAID5 and keeping the host machine offline. Still using my trusty 9x320GB pure-WD RAID6.

At least when a WD drive fails it doesn't make a suicide pact with it's bredrens.
 
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