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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Looks like some good info. I just need a GOOD sale and some extra money to |
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> spend. Maybe in a couple weeks or so. Hopefully. ;-) |
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> As for heat in my case, I have a Cooler Master HAF-932 case. It has those |
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> huge 230mm fans. Heat is not a problem. |
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> I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive tho. |
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> Hmmmmm. Surely they will run out of room at some point. I mean, the heads |
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> have got to have a little room to work with. |
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Just don't buy a SAMSUNG drive. I know, I know, everyone has their pet |
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"Don't Buy Hard Drives Made By $x" experience. |
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Here's mine. |
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I bought a 1TB SAMSUNG drive for cheap from Newegg at a Black Friday |
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sale a couple years ago. It failed on me. Around the same time, I |
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identified some flaws in the firmware which I considered severe[2]. |
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I RMA'd the drive, including a full report on the failure and the bugs |
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I'd found in the firmware. I received the new drive in the mail. Same |
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exact model. Same exact firmware revision.[1] It failed on me within |
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three months. I attempted another RMA, the drive's serial number was |
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rejected by their system, and I never heard back. |
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So, I recommend not buying SAMSUNG drives for a combination of: |
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1) Historical evidence of poor firmware design. (reference smartctl's |
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man page; SAMSUNG is the only manufacturer I know of to get two |
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user-selectable workarounds in smartctl.) |
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2) I received a failed drive, which was RMA'd, the subsequent drive |
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failed shortly thereafter, and couldn't be RMA'd using normal |
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channels. |
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3) No acknowledgement (or even denial) of the firmware issue. |
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[1] Ok, sure, there's no way they'd be able to whip out a new firmware |
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revision in time for an RMA. That wouldn't make sense. But they might |
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have sent me a drive with a different firmware revision. Or a |
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different model. As it stood, they sent me back a device I'd already |
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identified as systemically defective. |
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[2] It claimed to support logging, but any failed test didn't get |
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appended to the log, but erased and replaced it. I can probably dig up |
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nearly all the details, but not quickly, since I'm at work. However, |
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since you're on the cusp of making a purchase, I thought I'd give you |
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fair warning... |
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:wq |
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