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[Naked Snake]

Anyone have experience with Samsung IDE HDDs? Reliability, performance and noise wise.

 

[segasonic]

I have a Samsung 200 Gig IDE HDD

Very quiet, and pretty fast too. No Problems so far.

I had a 300 Gig SATA Seagate Barracuda before which was very noisy, so I ebayed it.

 

[fart]

quite good

 

[Drexon]

I have a Samsung 200 Gig IDE HDD

Very quiet, and pretty fast too. No Problems so far.

I had a 300 Gig SATA Seagate Barracuda before which was very noisy, so I ebayed it.

^^^ What he said. Had a Seagate Barracuda (SATA) too, was too noisy so I sold it and got a Samsung Spinpoint 200GB SATA2, wich works perfectly. They say it's the slowest of the current 200GB SATA HDDs but I haven't noticed any difference. It's now suspended in mid air on some rubber bands and I can't hear it whatsoever when I sleep, 2 meters from it.

 

[Shogmaster]

Seems like alot of folks are bothered by Seagate data check crunching noise. I have SATA WD JBs, and they are pretty quiet too, but my buddy regrets the Seagate purchase even though he got it for the 5 yr warranty over 3 years of my WDs.

 

[AndreasNystrom]

Got one, and still running strong after a few years of heavy duty.

 

[mrklaw]

I've got two 120GB spinpoints in my Tivo. Been running 24/7 for two years so far.

 

[Lord Error]

I had one 120GB Spinpoint, which developed one single bad sector after maybe a year of use. The Samsung's disk checking utility is reporting it, but I've first noticed it first when one MP3 file wouldn't copy over when I tried to copy it. S.M.A.R.T. never reported any problems, btw. Disk is still working, but I'm going to get an exchange now, and I've switched to WD 160GB. I simply don't want to continue using disks that develop bad sectors even if it's so minor like in my case. I think you'll hear stories like mine for every manufacturer and every HDD ever made, it doesn't mean that Samsung's disks are bad, I still think they are quite good in fact.

 

[Fatalah]

I'm pretty sure the HDD in the current kits of the XBOX360 are Samsung. That's a good indicator of trust.

 

[mrklaw]

I'm pretty sure the HDD in the current kits of the XBOX360 are Samsung. That's a good indicator of trust.

looking at those internal pics of the 360, pretty much everything is made by Samsung.

 

[Lord Error]

Yeah, MS and Samsung have some deal around Xbox 360, that's for sure. They are also using, and cross promoting their LCD TVs with it.

 

[Outlaw]

Didn't samsung buy or used to make IBM HDDs? If so then yes = )

 

[tedtropy]

I have a Samsung 200 Gig IDE HDD

Very quiet, and pretty fast too. No Problems so far.

I had a 300 Gig SATA Seagate Barracuda before which was very noisy, so I ebayed it.

That's surprising. Seagates are usually renowned for being pretty quite. In fact, I switched my 160GB WD drive out for a Segate Barracuda for that reason and the thing's basically inaudible. I hear a little noise when something's really hitting the drive, but that's about it.