I've had 2 drives die on me after 15 years of owning various ones. Both were Samsung, a 250gig died after 18 months, and a 1tb drive died after 2 months (Both within 1 year of each other).
I've totally lost me lose faith in Samsung, it's a shame they aren't reliable because when they work they are decent, fast and reasonably priced.
But yeah, I've come across a lot more folk with failed drives as the capacities have increased. It REALLY hits home the importance of backing stuff up.
I had a 1 TB WD, then two 1 TB Samsungs, all work fine. No experience with 1+ TB stuff, because they when I bought the 1 TB ones, the bigger ones were overpriced.
One nasty habit of Windows 7 when using multiple HDDs was, however, unearthed quickly after installing it. By default setting, W7 switches off HDDs after 15-20 mins if they are not used, ie. in the case of 3-4 HDDs present in your desktop PC. They DO NOT like it, being switched on and off all the time.. result: a 320 and a 500 Gig older WD are full with bad sectors.. so switch this one off under energy management.
I've been happy with my internal 1TB Samsung. Its strictly for storage of movies, tv, and sports files that I share P2P. Having filled up two WD Caviar Black 500GB, I didn't see the necessity of spending the extra dollars for the performance they offer in a storage capacity.Originally posted by ytareh:
Theyre getting VERY cheap and sooo handy BUT I had one and it failed after hardly a month and ANY Google search yields horror stories of multiple failures...Anyone having much luck with 1-2TB drives?
This is what I have, and it had to be purchased locally. http://www.microcenter.com/sin...l?product_id=0340562
I've always found the newegg feedback to be an excellent indicator of product quality. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...point%20F3%20HD103SJ
In fourteen years, I've only lost one hd, and that was due to lightening striking my neighbors trees. It also brought an early demise to a Viewsonic crt monitor.