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Werelds
Special Little Man
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 Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 21:56 Post subject: Bollocks. |
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My Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB is already giving up.
Apart from the fact that it is a *very* noisy drive, it's properly starting to fail now. Purchased it on 2010/08/20, 138 SMART errors recorded since then, and now I'm actually on my laptop waiting for chkdsk to finish doing its thing.
Opera and Firefox both can't access a load of their files (Opera reports a corrupt disk, FF can't access the temp folders), Visual Studio won't even load anymore because it can't find half of its controls (which are there according to the filesystem, just inaccessible), loading games results into silent CTD's; loading a game from Steam results in it wanting to install the VC and DX redistributable again, both failing with errors about not being able to access their unpacked files.
In a year time, I've seen this drive fail, two Hitachi drives fail, my old Spinpoint F1 500GB dropping in read/write speeds like crazy and one of the two F1's in a 1TB external drive (internally uses a raid-0 setup with 2 500GB drives) not even spinning up anymore. Both F1's were between 2 and 3 years old, the F3 and Hitachi drives were all less than a year old. All on different systems, apart from my own F1 and F3.
Talk about annoying. I'll be replacing this F3 as soon as I get time to drop by my retailer. My good old trusty WD Caviar SE16 is still going strong after 5 years. It's become slower (and considering it's a drive from 5 years ago, it already was slower than current drives out there), but at least it doesn't corrupt my goddamn data :/
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 22:01 Post subject: |
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my F1 still going strong, not only it's quietest drive in my case it also the coldest one
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tonizito
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Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 22:34 Post subject: |
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Ever since I've had some problems with a couple of Samsung optical drives 7-8 years ago I've tried to steer clear of the brand.
Although I also have an IDE 20 GB HDD(running at UDMA6, it says  ) from them running without a problem for around 5 years now.
Soooo... 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 22:40 Post subject: |
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from 5 drives in my pc 4 of them are sammys
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 22:41 Post subject: |
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It's luck really, the brand doesn't seem to mean anything. Every brand has failing drives, it's inevitable.
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Werelds
Special Little Man
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 22:56 Post subject: |
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I very well know that, some of my most reliable drives in the past (read: 10-15 years ago) have been Maxtors, which some people on this forum absolutely hate.
Been reading a bit about it, the F3's do seem to have a higher-than-average failure rate. Higher than the F1's at least.
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Slizza
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Location: Bulgaria
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Rofl_Mao
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Location: Nederland
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| Posted: Sun, 14th Nov 2010 11:24 Post subject: |
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I have a 7 year old Seagate 120GB PATA drive which is still working fine... it's now in my PS2 running games with HDloader.
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