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Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 13:51:47 schrieb Michael Mol: |
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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 |
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> > to spend. Maybe in a couple weeks or so. Hopefully. ;-) |
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> > |
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> > As for heat in my case, I have a Cooler Master HAF-932 case. It has |
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> > those huge 230mm fans. Heat is not a problem. |
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> > |
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> > I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive |
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> > tho. Hmmmmm. Surely they will run out of room at some point. I mean, |
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> > the heads have got to have a little room to work with. |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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/dev/sda: |
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Model=SAMSUNG MMCRE64G5MXP-0VB, FwRev=VBM1901Q, SerialNo=S0FDNEAZ600013 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=125045424 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 |
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AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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/dev/sdb: |
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Model=SAMSUNG HD502IJ, FwRev=1AA01109, SerialNo=S13TJDWQ346413 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=976773168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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/dev/sdc: |
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Model=SAMSUNG HD753LJ, FwRev=1AA01113, SerialNo=S13UJ1CQB07158 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1465149168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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/dev/sdd: |
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Model=SAMSUNG HD502HJ, FwRev=1AJ100E5, SerialNo=S20BJDWS913888 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=976773168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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/dev/sde: |
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Model=SAMSUNG HD103SJ, FwRev=1AJ10001, SerialNo=S246JD1Z910209 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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/dev/sdf: |
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Model=SAMSUNG HD103SJ, FwRev=1AJ100E5, SerialNo=S246JDWSA20722 |
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Config={ Fixed } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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the 2tb drive is not connected at the moment - but, hey it's a Samsung - ans |
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so quiet, that I sometimes forget to turn it off. |
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Oh, yeah it was THAT 2tb drive with the smart bug. |
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Which was solved with an easy to do firmware update. |
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