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Hi everybody, |
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Paul de Vrieze schrieb: |
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>On Saturday 03 April 2004 16:42, Dan Podeanu wrote: |
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>>I would never buy a Samsung HDD, as I would never buy an HP switch, or an |
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>>LG mobile phone. |
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At the time I bought the thing, I needed a large cheap drive desperately |
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to replace another goner :-( |
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But it's not that bad. Apart from lots of mails and some personal stuff |
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not much has been lost. Most of the things on the drive had been backed |
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up on CDs, so the loss is more of an "at the worst possible time" thing. |
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>>Buy harddrives from those that do harddrives for a living (maxtor, seagata, |
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>>western digital), switches from cisco, nortel, etc., mobiles from siemens, |
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>>nokia, etc. |
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I have never had any problems with Samsung. Your rule may be true most |
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of the time but it's certainly not genuine. But I'll try to get a Maxtor |
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to replace the damn thing. |
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>>Just my imho. |
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>>Sorry for your harddrive :( |
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I'll try to get a replacement from Samsung. Manufacturing date is |
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2003.07 and I bough it two months later so they should replace it |
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without trouble. The drive carries no signs of external damage and I |
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just investigated the temperature which is fine. I am totally clueless |
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what destroyed the drive. |
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>I have a similar experience from samsung hd's. My university computer has one. |
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>Before this one it had another one. That old one was a 10gb version that was |
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>particularly slow. Besides that allready three of my colleagues had had |
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>problems with similar drives. Then mine started to act up. I guess I was on |
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>to it in time and I got a replacement before it stopped working completely. |
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>In any case backups are the way to go as I have had a number of hd crashes in |
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>my life allready. |
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Backups are not the problem... Reinstalling a perfectly well tuned |
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Gentoo system gives me the shivers... I'm seriously thinking of using |
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mirrored raid partitions next time. |
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regards, |
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Tobias |
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p.s.: I have to work at a W2K PC right now and I didn't remember how |
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much that sucks :-( Having to work with this thing is almost worse than |
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losing the drive. Almost. |
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