SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 1.5TB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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lots of space bought 9 and 3 of them died in the first week and they are dropping like flies i would pefer Western Digital they have the very best THIS IS A WASTE OF Dollars

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Performs flawless with Mac with sustained write speed of 70MB/s Low capacity; I wish to see 4TB Drives soon

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got a couple hours use out of it. Not lengthy immediately after powering up it began to sound like my grandfather old electric razor. then i got the wonderful "windows - delayed write failed" error messages. it doesn't come in a box, or with a sata cable, or even a jumper for that matter. No just in bubble wrap and packing peanuts. Sandwiched appropriate in among to dvd drives, which i was receiving that had been also just in bubble wrap.... gee.. i wonder if getting packed next to two strong magnets had anything at all to do with these troubles...unreal. i know this drive seemingly has gotten great ratings but i would suggest staying away from this one. from what I've study in the other evaluations even if you got a working drive there are a lot of other issues to contend with. all in all this is the only RMA I've ever had to do with solutions from newegg, but it couldn't have come at a worse time. what a fantastic christmas this will make, huh?i just hope i can get a refund not a replacement.

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It was a great value for the size. I purchased this to shop my media library on and so I hardly ever accessed this drive. Perhaps 20 occasions over the past year. I had a dilemma accessing a media file and so I ran disk verify and found that there are poor sectors that cannot be fixed. Not content. I have always been a WD fan and for the cost I thought I'd try Samsung so I purchased two of them. I'm operating the extended disk examine on the other one particular appropriate now. Of course it has been 1 year and 1 month and the 1 year warranty is no longer valid. Wonderful job newegg for keeping all of my invoices on file. It was great to fine the original invoice ought to I have necessary it for my warranty.

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Lastly, a 1.5 TB drive that works. Attempted the others (those reasonably priced around the 贄 price tag range) and they failed to carry out.These function nicely standalone or in RAID. None so far Haven't had to RMA a drive to Samsung however, but I hope it is relatively uncomplicated.Samsung is my new HDD provider...

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Good storage capacity Dead in 6months, but only connected it 3 occasions through ext. enclosure. The drive must've been powered on for a total of about 18hrs in sum. From the get-go, this thing liked to make an odd screetching sound on startup. Now, it's the click of death. We've reached the limits of magnetic storage. Intro also quite a few platters and failure rate increases. I have tiny 40GB WD drives that are almost 10yrs old and are nevertheless operating fine. What a shame.... Anyway, stay away from this drive like the plague.

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the truth that it makes just about no noise is the key pro that is not covered it the description. would not thoughts if the write speeds had been quicker i am truly surprised by how tiny noise this difficult drive makes. my case does not have tough drive mounts that make for the most really of rigs but this drive is not producing a sound or at least is quieter then my fan. if you are searching for a challenging drive for media storage and playback this will perform good for that. this drive will not blow the doors of a lot of drives out there but i will hold all my music and vids.

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Ordered 5 (limit per consumer!) of these units. Presently anxiety testing them in a ZFS test box for about a week with constant random reading/writing in a raidz2 array. Can't fault them as yet. Ready to move them to the production server.Other Pros:- Quiet- Cool- Low poweriostat -exm shows no hard or soft errors either! none as yet These are power efficient, low RPM disks and will do fine for storage projects needing "deep archive". Random read overall performance is very good enough for most situations.

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I've been employing this as an internal secondary difficult drive for various months now and nevertheless haven't produced a dent in the 1.3ishTB of actual space. File transfer speed is seriously quickly too. Had a tiny trouble getting it operating as a slave drive, but that's my own lack of knowledge.

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inexpensive bought two drives, will not raid effectively sent in for repair identical problem when repaired. will not buy any samsung drives

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quickly adequate for all common purposes (about 80-110MB/s, from inside out), runs fairly cool. RMA swap is painless and rapidly. The Samsung disks appear to have a bad poor-sector handling... immediately after it became clear that the disks have bad sectors (the heads desperately try to read a negative sector that wasn't mapped out, and after as well quite a few attempts dismounts from the desktop), even reformatting and zeroing every thing didn't map out the bad ones, or changed the strange behavior.Writing to the disk is fine, but reading fails then miserably, which isn't entertaining when the disks are backup disk on the shelf, and you attempt to retrieve data from it. Because this is the second disk (out of 3) that failed, all I can say is don't buy. This is the second out of 3 Samsung 1.5TB drives that failed inside a year. I will not purchase Samsung HDD anytime soon once more. I don't trust them as backup media any longer.

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Per dollar these drives are a wonderful value.Size, seek time and cache are fantastic per disk util report testing, these drives are low-cost, rapidly, quiet and do not get as well hot for audio recording and playback on DAW servers. Good value for the income. none

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Economical, high capacity. Created poor sectors after about four months resulting in the loss of fifty Gb of space, immediately after about a year the drive just died and had to be returned to the manufacturer. Samsung's return process was simple, they had been unable to repair the drive and as an alternative returned a two Tb drive to me. Considering that then the new drive has given me no troubles.

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Quiet, low-power drives with big storage capacity. I got a single for Christmas last year and just bought two additional when they had been on sale for ๕.99 (an unbelievable deal!). With these 3 drives I built a 3TB RAID5 utilizing Windows XP Pro and the XP RAID5 hack. It functions fantastic and now my private server can store twice as significantly as prior to. None.I was about to return one particular of the drives after continuous formatting errors but eventually found that my overclock was messing up the onboard SATA controller which I never ever used ahead of. Soon after reverting to stock speeds it works fine. I also have a Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB which was the server's drive before the RAID and these are considerably superior. The Seagate gets hot and needed a cooling fan to preserve it cool though these drives only get slightly warm without a fan.Just before producing the RAID, my single Samsung drive was in an external enclosure and it worked perfectly as an external, I swapped it for the Seagate so I could have three identical drives in RAID.

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Fantastic worth - if it operates. Rather operation. The drive started out locking up my Mac Pro soon after 5 or 6 months and it has taken a lot of work to pinpoint the concern. If i reboot the computer everything is fine for a brief though. The drive will disappear from finder and accessing anything on the drive successfully locks up the personal computer.

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- Low Temperature- Low power None Would have loved it to be faster, but, it was as advertised.

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Sturdy, attractive case, quiet, like the power knob. nothing but. I just use this to feed a WD Live box. No complaints at all.

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I have not been in a position to test this tough drive yet. I can comprehend if the initially drive you obtain doesn't perform perfectly. I know that producing so quite a few difficult drives chances are that not all of them will function properly. But if I have to RMA 3x for 1 purchase that is exactly where I draw the line. Western Digital really pays for you to ship their RMA. Samsung.... you got to take cash out of your own pocket to ship it to them. It has expense me about ฽ additional just to ship 3 nonfunctional hard drives back to them. RMA's occur all the time, but if its regularly not working on the initial use then you know there is a issue with their excellent. I like Samsung but in terms of difficult drive I am going to stick to Western Digital or Intel for my SSD needs. It may possibly be just bad luck but I will never get another Samsung hard drive unless its offered to me.

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Tons of Storage, whisper quiet. Adjustable brightness for the activity light. Surprisingly fast for a USB two. device. I use it as a 3rd backup for my media server. wish it had an eSata Solution. Not really a con, just a wish. Didn't eliminate any eggs for this, since I knew what I was acquiring. Even though it's not my principal playback alternative for video/music/photos I tried it out to test the speed. I played a full excellent 1080p Blu-ray from it and it didn't skip a beat the entire time. I also streamed the same video from my laptop to see how well it streamed more than the network (Gigabit lan to wireless N laptop), no concerns at all. Feel confident if you are looking at this as an external media storage solution. I would say it is a excellent portable solution, but due to the fact it requires a power supply, it's not as portable as a 2.five" eSata/USB 2. external storage device.

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Hi capacity - 1.5TB Not too shabbySpeed - Dont let the 5400RPM fool you. This drive can transfer files at more than 90-110MB/S sustained most of the time. If it falls below that speed it is due to the other drive cant keep up or the drive is seriously fragmented. It's faster than ST31500341AS at transferring filesLow operating temp - HD Tune Pro reports operating temperature 32C although my SG1.5TB ST31500341AS ran at 46C, SG1TB ST31000528AS @ 37C, WD 1TB WD1001FALS @ 46C in a LianLi PC60FW caseLow price - At the time of obtain (July 09), it was 贘 every or purchase 2 for 赨 saving ุ. Right after close to a year It's still about the same price, maybe บ cheaper when on sale.three year warranty - When this drive first came out, there were no warranty facts. Numerous persons thought it's only 30 days warranty by means of Newegg. Samsung warranty page didnt list this drive as getting any warranty but it does have 3 years. Bought 2. 1 failed immediately after nearly a year. The operating one particular is in a LianLi PC60FW case that ran 24ǝ given that I purchased it. The 1 that failed was for a backup Pc in an IN WIN IW-BK623 case mounted up against a WD500AAKS with no ventilation due to poor case design. The heat from the WD drive result in the Samsung drive to run at nearly 50C. It survived for a month. Then Windows crashed. the OS partition disappeared. Got it hooked up to the major Computer through SATA and it freezes the principal Pc. unplug it and the principal Computer resumes. I hooked it up to the main Computer utilizing a SATA to USB cable and the drive ran fine for days without having crashing but crashes when as soon as I switched to SATA. When I check for warranty 11 months ago, Samsung didnt have warranty info for this drive. Now they do at http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/warranty/Support_Warranty.html I RMAed it working with USPS priority flat rate with confirmation for $.5.75 They mailed it back to me making use of UPS 2nd day air. Not poor. When I opened the box the drive appeared to be a new drive and not a refurb. Either that or they hid the reconditioned label too well b/c I dont see it on the label anywhere.

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The sale price tag was great, if only the drives had been functioning. Newegg has been exceptionally prompt with the exchange and return method. Received the very first drive DOA, RMA'd for a replacement, which was also DOA. Both failed the initial format at around the identical spot in the 70% complete range. Not going to go through the trouble to try for a third. Very disappointed, but I guess I'll have to look to some other manufacturer for my storage demands.

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i am the one particular n/a and i would like to take back with what i mentioned about this tough drive sorry every body i got the manufactures mixed up it was seagate that is the 1 i should have stated this about it is probaly a really very good drive

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$ per GB at time of purchase. cool, quiet none until it fails installed into WHS v1 PP3, no concerns, several by .93 to get accurate capacity soon after format, not an advanced format drive so runs fine in W2k3 and XP

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cost per gig is unbelievable. stays incredibly cool. nada this is a green drive. don't get this drive for something other than data storage. i got one more a single due to the fact the one that's been in my comp for more than a year has been fantastic and since it was a backup why not get the identical one. yes i know that HDDs aren't correct backup but whatever. i'm willing to risk it rather than invest a fortune on BDRs or invest a lifetime burning DVDs. i paired this with the TT blacx docking station and it worked perfectly. for the men and women who got a dud i'm sorry for you. sometimes it just occurs. but honestly i genuinely like these drives. don't let the bad critiques put you off - i assume for the most portion these are quality.

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I have three of these in my Synology DS508 NAS utilizing RAID5. Drive runs very cool when compared to other drives in the similar class. Typical temp is 27 °C verses the other manufactures(Seagate and WD). I went with Samsung for the lower value and have been pleased with the item so far. Not actually a Con but, I ordered 3 of these drives to load into my Synology DS508 NAS. All in all it took about 5 hours to format and initialize in my NAS. I bought 2 other drives from a different manufacture and 1 of them failed about 3 weeks ago. The only down-side to Samsung is their support to register the drive for warranty purposes. If Samsung ever choose to mirrors WD support then it may raise the bar to have the other guys increase their merchandise too. My 1st expertise with a Samsung drive was about 10 years ago and it's still running (even although it has a very little capacity). Samsung has came a lengthy way with there merchandise and it shows. Nothing last for ever...correct?