1 x 1TB F1 over 2 years still working 2 x 2TB F3EG 12 months still working 1 x 2TB F4EG 3 months still working Fingers crossed
1 x 1 TB F1 around 19 months - no worries whatsoever 3 x 500 GB F1's in various machines I've built in the last two years, no problems.
1 f1 with no probs, 3 f3's with no probs 1 pof which is in my external caddy, 1 used for main drive and the other looking for something to do lol
1 x 1TB F1 for 3 years 1 x 1TB F3 for a year 2 x 2TB F3 for a year 1 x 40GB old Spinpoint that I've had for 3 years (used before that) They're all still working fine.
8x250GB P120 for a good long stint, no issues (actually I had 9, but one was never spun up) 4x1TB F1 for another few years, only recently decommissioned, no issues 2x2TB F4 currently, relatively new, but no issues so far
I had a F1 a year or so ago and a part of the pcb inside, went pop with a big puff of smoke. I still have it in my room collecting dust. Typical that it run out of warrenty when it decided to die. So i went out and bought 2 ssds to cheer myself up
1x F3EG since April 2010 2x F4EG since Jan 2011 (in RAID 5 with the above) 1x F3 since this month No problems at all.
1x F3 1TB, 18 months old, although has only seen usage ~once a month in the last 6 months. Was running almost 24/7 for the 12 months before that. No issues at all, great drive.
1 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 10 months old running in a WHS 1 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 1.5 years old used as data drive in PC 1 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 2 years old used as data drive in PC 1 x SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD300LJ 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 4.5 years old used as primary drive for customer 1 x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2504C 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 5 years old used as primary drive for customer 2 x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2504C 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 5 years old used in RAID 0 as data drives 1 x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2004C 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 5.5 years old used as data drive 2 x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2004C 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive - 6 years old used as primary drives in RAID 0 I have used them in my builds for myself and builds for other people. Out of those 10, no RMAs and no drives that died. Unlike my WD drives that always seem to die because of their controller boards
2x samsung sp2004c spinpoint p series 2x samsung hd103si spinpoint f2 ecogreen series all of which are currently in use in file server, which see some pretty good use. no issues with samsung drives, or my western digitals, or my hitachis... lots of failed seagates.
1 F3 500GB about a year 1 F4 2TB about 1 month 1 F3 1TB about a week, but it isn't in a machine yet. No failures on any of them.
I have had a 1tb F3 for a few months and although I have never had any trouble with it, it does seem to make strange noises which has me worried.
The problem with this are people are for more likely to post if they've had a problem so you can't get a representative result. Plus people on this forum probably give hard drive far more work than most people.
Normally I would agree, but counting the hdds posted we have a total of 133 hdds with 15 failures making a fail rate of roughly 11.3%. If you take out the one post where the guy had 8 out of 10 fail then you have 123 hdds with 5 failed making for a 4.1% fail rate. Not too bad considering the sample size.
500GB Spinpoint failed 2 weeks ago. Strange though because it seemed to be electronics. i.e. as soon as I switched the computer on something tripped out the whole system. Process of elimination identified the HDD. 2 Years old. First time I've ever had an HDD failure.
My 250GB Spinpoint hasn't died yet but it sounds I had tried to change gear in a car without any clutch, it grates and makes harsh noises when first turned.
