Customer Reviews

Samsung 1 TB SATA II Hard Drive HD103UJ

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After reading the white papers and reviews available for this drive it was clearly not simply a replacement drive, but an upgrade.

The read-write speeds are incredible. Considering the configuration of the number - and the draw - of internal components within my systems; any additional draw on power supplies are calculated. Here it was negligible. In the first workstation I installed one of these, heat is a major consideration. This drive produced practically no heat compared to any drive I've used.

I wanted to wait for a period prior to writing a review to have the drive tested over time in a number of computers to see how it performed over time. The unit has proven a reliable high performance drive across the board.

As when reading reviews, each reader is looking to see if one covers their specific needs. I will disclose the specifics of my use. These drives are currently being run in Powermac G5s and Mac Pros. I have not tested this drive type in a PC. My use is in film and video post production, primarily visual effects. So the drives are genuinely tested. Massive files are written to from them. They are used for everything from being the drives with the OS and softs on them, to rendering.

While I'm sure they would perform as well in a PC, in Macs it has performed brilliantly.

Samsung's QTY 3x 334GB platters are arguably the most important element of the Spinpoint F1 desktop class Hard Drive not only because they represent a technical milestone that is a marked improvement over what the competitors has been able to accomplish to date.

The more data one can squeeze onto a hard drive platter, the higher its areal density. This influences performance because higher areal densities allow the drive head to access more data over shorter physical distances, which can lead to higher transfer rates.

Check out the specs it is true, the drive is indeed fast and Quiet in operation, Low power consumption leading to lower failure rates. 32MB buffer tops it up to be an excellent choice for 1TB HDD in the market today.

PROS:

[+] Very Quiet and has low power consumption
[+] Excellent Speed and performance
[+] Only 3 Platters

CONS:

[-] This drive is OEM and does not come with SATA Cable.

It is the best 1TB HDD around if you can find them below $100 dollars online it is a real deal. Go get it!

I purchased 6 of these drives to use in a computer. One is the boot, and the other five for a RAID 5 array. The side of my computer case is still off as I haven't finished everything quite yet, but these drives are much quieter than the Maxtor 300 GB and 320 GB drives they replace. There are three Maxtor drives, one for the boot and two in a RAID 1 configuration.

The Samsung drives also run significantly cooler as well. The old drives ran under 32-bit Vista Ultimate; the new drives are running under 64-bit Vista Ultimate. In addition to being cooler, they are much quieter than the Maxtor 320 GB drive and slightly quieter than the Maxtor 300 GB drives.

I've read some reviews where others have commented that this drive is slower to spin up to ready than other drives. On average larger capacity drives tend to take additional time to come ready. The Samsung drives are in the ballpark (slightly faster, actually) when compared to drives in the same class from competitors.

I use these in my NAS box in a RAID array. They work great. Very fast read and right speeds.

Zipzoomfly has these at a great price, rebate, and free shipping. I have yet to fill one up so no reason for 1.5TB or 2TB...yet. Relatively quiet, runs a little hot if just sitting on desk so make sure a fan is blowing across the drive. NO failures after a year of use.
Initially I had a lot of trouble with the drives but they all turned out to be a MEMORY issue on my new, hand built computer. I had 4 of the drives corrupted (sometimes more than once) and had to reload op sys every time until I REPOSITIONED AND RESEATED my damn memory sticks. Luckily all of the drives were easily reformatted and recovered well. Lesson learned? If you think your hard drive has failed, use a diagnostic CD to check the drive AFTER reformatting. Likely that the drive is fine and that your computer screwed it up!

This drive gave about a year's worth of semi-dependable service (lots of filesystem errors) and then it died. It won't even spin up now and there is a faint smell of burning electronics... I bought another one so that I can try to fix it. I would not recommend it unless you like headaches.

I ordered this drive, got it in good time at a very good price, received it, put it into an enclosure, and hooked it up via firewire. It is preforming without a problem.

I was using this drive as my backup. One day I turned the computer on, got lots of disk errors. Next day it just disappeared. Wouldn't even appear on My Computer list.

First Samsung drive I've ever had problems with.

Samsung replaced under warranty.

Replacement is now operating in a docking station but gets really hot compared to other Samsung drives.

Very concerned about its potential longevity.

I put this in my Macbook Pro ... thought this would be great for photos, music, etc.. stupid me. Hard drive has failed after 6 months... can't be read any more.. 500gb worth of data.. Stupid me, I haven't done a back up in 3 months... everything I've done since then.. all my photo shoots and everything else ... LOST. don't waste your time or money

Bought this hard drive a while back and used it as a storage hard drive. After minimal use, it started making clicking noise until it finally died. I am very disappointed at the quality of these hard drive.