jcarle Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Five boards RMAed since march and now disc...If you've RMAed 5 motherboards in less then a year and now the problems with your hard drive, I'd say there's something seriously wrong that hasn't been addressed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopuss Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 No, not really... The story is a bit more complicated, but no 700GB of which 500 are movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I had to RMA my first Samsung 500GB drive due to the same problem. SpinRite could not repair the sectors and they were growing in number every day. Read the FAQ @ StorageReview about the "Clicks of Death"http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki...age=DeathClicksI replaced it with a WD 640GB since its about the fastest 7200RPM drive you can buy. I want to go RAID but I'm limited with my current Shuttle box.Also for anyone else reading this and not familiar with Samsung, their RMA process is years behind WD and Seagate.BTW check your power supply, maybe the voltage rails are unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopuss Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 I still believe this Samsung is among the fastest drives available if not fastest alone (wish they made 1TB VelociRaptor, lol).Power is perfectly ok... I assume the problem is having the PC on 24/7. I did have some lockups and freezes. Might be that.and Samsung's RMA is not of any interest for me cause I can have the disc replaced right on at the store I bought it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJM Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 If you bought it localy ( IE neighborhood Best Buy or whatever instead of over the internet) when they replace your disk they probably could transfer your data over to your new disk for nominal fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 rule of thumb.if you need to store X ammount of data, buy 2 drives, the size of X, one to store it, the other as a backup.and no, the Western Digital Black and RE3's are faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I cannot resist as well, sorry. In MY times, we would have used :486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppiesora few zillions roots and stones:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...21362&st=10http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1908http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/2007022507..._in_my_day.html jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJM Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I cannot resist as well, sorry.Going a little further back, 19,728,535.35 miles of punched paper tape at 8 8bit bytes per inch.http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/paper+tape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopuss Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 and no, the Western Digital Black and RE3's are fasterProof or ot never happened I cannot resist as well, sorry.Going a little further back, 19,728,535.35 miles of punched paper tape at 8 8bit bytes per inch.http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/paper+tapejesus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenon2050 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Well I don't see what Jesus has to do with it... But now that you mentioned Him, He probably could have just memorized it all.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenon2050 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 rule of thumb.if you need to store X ammount of data, buy 2 drives, the size of X, one to store it, the other as a backup.Thats the point I was trying to make... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopuss Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 Well I don't see what Jesus has to do with it... But now that you mentioned Him, He probably could have just memorized it all.. I don't care even if it was Jehova, but please, for the sake of everything nice and good left on Earth, don't start about Chuck Norris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Going off topic but...and no, the Western Digital Black and RE3's are fasterProof or it never happened It has to do with Areal Density, Platter Size, and NCQ Algorithm, Random Access Times etc.Western Digital's Caviar SE16 640GB hard drive I personally use these http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380Western Digital's Caviar Black hard drivehttp://techreport.com/articles.x/15363Samsung's Spinpoint F1 hard drivehttp://techreport.com/articles.x/14200But if you want the fastest single drive you go for Intel! Intel's X25-M solid-state drivehttp://techreport.com/articles.x/15433 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig123 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 If you bought it localy ( IE neighborhood Best Buy or whatever instead of over the internet) when they replace your disk they probably could transfer your data over to your new disk for nominal fee. If they do a direct replacement at the store... make sure they aren't swapping it for a 'referb' drive! you bought new, you should get new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 (edited) I cannot resist as well, sorry. In MY times, we would have used :486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppiesora few zillions roots and stones:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...21362&st=10http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1908http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/2007022507..._in_my_day.html jaclazAnd to think I could barely copy a couple of handfulls of them without one or two reading wrong...So with those numbers you are looking at several thousand dead disks. (We are talking POUNDS of dead disks here people )Or maybe I just always had bad luck.Maybe we can build a life-like statue of Jesus from them Edited September 29, 2008 by Kelsenellenelvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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