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Model
Brand SAMSUNG
Series EcoGreen F2
Model HD154UI
Packaging Bare Drive
Performance
Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity 1.5TB
Cache 32MB
Average Seek Time 8.9ms
Average Latency 5.52ms
Physical Spec
Form Factor 3.5"
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 3 years limited
Labor 3 years limited
Is that just bad luck or is it a known issue? I'm pretty tempted by this price!
Last week I saw someone complaining they had several WDs fail on them and they're never buying that brand again. If you based your purchasing decisions on these sorts of anecdotes, you wouldn't buy any hard disks at all.
lol agreed for a one off, although this is not a one off, i did say this was my third one and have friends who bought these and had same problem although sooner than me.
The only common factors were place of purchase and model
also i heard people complaining about toyota priuses mnore than a year ago, i didnt buy one because of this and hey seems to have made sense now
@Mikinoz: of course , i tottally agree the place of purchase . Samsung must have shipped a special shipment to that place .
@bargaincrypt: that or the care that is taken with the product once it has arrived
nice to see your wonderfull customer service hasnt changed
@bargaincrypt: Place of purchase and batch is usually the culprit. It could be that you're getting replacements from the same batch which are faulty. Also dending on the store that you buy you goods from can also depend on the quality. For example I did work experience at this computer store for one week and one of my jobs was to take a new HDD and install it into an external enclosure. When they got out the HDD's to give to me they just chucked the box of (I think 24 of them) at my feet, and by chuck I mean throw from about waist height onto the floor at my feet from about 5m away. Another example is that when they stacked monitors for storage they just dumped them on top of each other. Not carefully place/stack, but bring up to what ever height, drop it onto the stack and then with force adjust the stack so it's square (including any monitors underneath that moved because of their stacking methods).
@Trance N Dance: agree with u mate. i was worked with one of laptop company in sydney. can't mentioned the name. when we got shippment from overseas
, then we need to install this laptop as per customer order. one big pallet, we need to be able to unpack within 5 minutes,
may be around 5 people working on this pallet, we just throw the box from the top to the bottom.
then we need to install some software and memory into this latop. everyone got 32 units to install, we need to do it within 1 hr.
every 32 units. at least 2 has problem with hdd, most of them are dead.
i promise won't buy their brand after workig with that company.
its a known problem
having trouble finding a link for it though amyone else got one
i really need more space! 1 TB disk only have 200GB left
never trust fluidtek. never trust Samsung drives either. buy WD or Seagate
yes , yes , i think they are manufacturing the drives themselves .
I had a bad experience with a brand and don't believe anyone else who says they've had a bad experience with the brands I like.
Durp.
Approx how long would it take to transfer 1.5TB at 5,400rpms? It's slow enough when running a 7,200 drive
What a wierd question. How often do you use an internal HDD simply to fill it in one big go transferred from other sources?
Anyway. Answering the question. It writes at around a sustained 82MB/s. So assuming your source disk is fast enough (older 500GB 7200rpm drives for example won't be) it'd fill the entire 1.5TB in 5 hours.
By comparison a Seagate 1.5Tb 7200.11 is around 99MB/s sustained, aboiut a 18% improvment, and would take about 4hr10m to entirely fill. They start at a cost of around 60% more than this one ($165+).
Agreed.
it's unpleasant IMO
there's a big difference between 7,200 and 5,400 in a home file server type environment
but this is the price you pay… a real 7,200rpm drive is $130? or more
so if you have a NAS which is slow anyway, these drives are fine
I've got 8x samsung 500gb, 4x samsung 1.5tb and a bunch of smaller samsung 400gb, 250gb, 160gb drives and none have failed or shown click of death… have had a Seagate 1.5tb fail and lots of older WD 120gb 160gb failures. Every manufacturer has bad drives, just depends on your luck with the batch you get so there's no point saying ALL samsung drives are bad.
BTW, none of my samsung drives were bought together so all came from different batches.
Ive had a 1tb in my HTPC for about a year or two now, and it hasn't had one hickup. I agree that all manufactures have duds and people who are unlucky enough to get then rant on that every drive is gonna fail..Though it is true some brands have more failures then others.
i have over a dozen samsung drives
two have failed… both were done under warranty with them at homebush
flawless rma process unlike the "send back to singapore" crap you hear of
Terrific price for a 1.5TB!
Cheapest ever seen to date.
Both my Seagates which have been powered on for two years (yes only two years, so still well in warranty), developed bad sectors. One disk in particular, has 1740 bad sectors. I've now switched brands to these Samsung 1.5TB's, I'll let you know in two years how they fare. :)
My third Seagate drive is also on it's way at 1.4 years power on, with 2 bad sectors.
dam doesn't offer delivery. Too bad im not in QLD
I have a Samsung 750GB F3 drive and its fantastic.
Used Crystal DiskMark and benched F3 vs my other Seagate 7200rpm 1tb(7200.12) and the Sammy was faster!
Never by samsung dives again my 1.5tb from fluidtek has been the worst hard disk i have ever had , on to my third one and it still has the click of death.