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Technical Details
- Brand Name: Samsung
- Model: HD103SJ
- Hard Disk Size: 1 TB
- Warranty: 3 years
- Form Factor: 3.5-Inch
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Product Description
Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB SATA2 7200rpm 32MB Hard Drive
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By JK
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This video is for the 2 hard drives that I received from amazon.com. They arrived thrown into a box with no type of protection. I contacted amazon and they gave me a pre-paid label to send them back and sent me replacement drives with next day shipping. The drives that I received the next day were in MUCH better shape. Amazon states these drives are only 16 MB cache but I have confirmed by checking the model number they are 32 MB cache. When the box arrived I also checked the box for this information and sure enough it was indeed 32 MB cache. These hard drives are great. They are quiet and very fast. At the end of the video I included some benchmark tests for these hard drives which I am running as 2 separate simple volume drives.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Verified Purchase
As of 9/8/11 I received my package and it was packaged perfectly. It was two boxes deep with a cradle for the HDD inside the inner most box and to cushion it they had air bags inside the lining between the first and second box. I do not need to review the performance (as this drive is two years old and the reviews are always amazing for this thing) but I want to let other Amazonians know that this is SAFE TO ORDER!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Verified Purchase
Recently bought the samsung drive after reading many reviews and finally making a choice. The drive arrived fairly fast from Amazon but when I opened the box found that the drive was inside the manufacturer's plastic packaging which would protect it from dust but otherwise just laying loose with a very small piece of bubble wrap that had deflated.
Thought about sending it back at that point without even opening the manufacturer's packaging but needed the drive so decided to install it. So far the drive has been flawless, and will probably buy another one, just probably not from Amazon since they can't seem to figure out how to properly pack their boxes.
Thought about sending it back at that point without even opening the manufacturer's packaging but needed the drive so decided to install it. So far the drive has been flawless, and will probably buy another one, just probably not from Amazon since they can't seem to figure out how to properly pack their boxes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Quadfinger
Verified Purchase
The drive performs as stated, good value for the money.
Slightly better performance than WD Caviar black and at a better price.
My only regret is that I didn't get the 2tb one.
Slightly better performance than WD Caviar black and at a better price.
My only regret is that I didn't get the 2tb one.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Kevin Meade
I got four of these with a new system 14 months ago. I just finished doing an image rebuild of my windows 7 system because two drives went bad. My system started acting up last month and after downloading several tools, I found one that told me my drive had way to many faults and needed to be replaced. I must say, SMART worked quite well at masking the problem for many months apparently, doing its hidden remapping thing on the bad drive. I tried installing windows on one of the other four drives and after some time, it took but this was suspect too. I could see the install of windows going fast, then real slow, then fast, then real slow. Made me think again that this second drive had bad spots. After the windows re-install I had similar issues running from the second drive. I could not for example install new video drivers on the clean install of windows. After a couple of hours I scrapped the second drive too. The new install exhibited the same behavior as the old one. So I used windows backup to make an image copy of my windows 7 system from the first drive, placed on a third drive. Then I unplugged these two bad drives and rebooted into windows repair. I then used windows image restore to restore to the fourth drive. Flawless. Did not loose a thing. Of course I now have two useless drives with lots of errors on them, but I am very happy I choose to get four drives when I bought the system originally otherwise I'd be screwed.
IN SHORT:
The drives are inexpensive and fast enough. But two out of four drive failures in 14 months is a very bad record I think. I can't say this is typical, only that this is my experience with them. Perhapes what disgusts me the most is that I never actually used three of the four drives, so for drive #2 to also be too bad to use, means it came that way from the begining. What crap is that eh?
Hail Flavius!
IN SHORT:
The drives are inexpensive and fast enough. But two out of four drive failures in 14 months is a very bad record I think. I can't say this is typical, only that this is my experience with them. Perhapes what disgusts me the most is that I never actually used three of the four drives, so for drive #2 to also be too bad to use, means it came that way from the begining. What crap is that eh?
Hail Flavius!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
both disks failed in under a year. Manufacturer says they're out of warranty...
July 15, 2012
By kwillia
Verified Purchase
I purchased 2 of these back in September of 2011. As of July of 2012, both disks have significant uncorrectable errors and are unusable.
Manufacturer's warranty is supposedly 1 year. Samsung/Seagate websites says they are out of warranty.
I would beware of this seller and these drives. I have been completely unsuccessful at getting these bad disks RMA'd.
Manufacturer's warranty is supposedly 1 year. Samsung/Seagate websites says they are out of warranty.
I would beware of this seller and these drives. I have been completely unsuccessful at getting these bad disks RMA'd.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By J. West
Verified Purchase
I bought this hard drive in June '11 for a custom build, and it has worked perfectly fine.
I just wanted to point out for those who are curious, that the Windows Experience Index subscore for this HD is 5.9.
Carry on.
I just wanted to point out for those who are curious, that the Windows Experience Index subscore for this HD is 5.9.
Carry on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By G. Stuart
Verified Purchase
I have had great experience with Samsung hard drives and this one is no exception. It runs cool and accesses my files quickly. I have had no problems at all with this drive.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
Is working perfectly. No problems
Published 1 month ago by Dennis Nugent
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bits to Bits
According to Amazon, I purchased this drive in May 2011. It's now September 2014. The drive went into semi-retirement in March 2013, when I replaced it with a 4TB Seagate unit and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tommy M.
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Four Stars
ok
Published 1 month ago by Choo Choo Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
I really like samsung hdds. It works well.
Published 2 months ago by Happy Husby
3.0 out of 5 stars
Three Stars
Noisy compared to my original model of the same type.
Published 3 months ago by NH User
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible Quality. Samsung needs more Quality Checking within their ...
Horrible Quality. Samsung needs more Quality Checking within their facilities. This is unacceptable. Read more
Published 4 months ago by SmartV
1.0 out of 5 stars
Beware the high star reviews! Over four years, 6 out of 9 of these...
I've had a RAID-5 array running with four of these Spinpoint F3 (HD103SJ) drives running since 2010. Over the past four years, I've had to replace SIX of these drives. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jonathan W. Hilgeman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works great
I purchased this Sata hard drive to gain extra needed space. I upgraded to windows 7 and installed on my new hard drive. Read more
Published 7 months ago by TFA
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet drive
This drive is quiet, very quiet. It came with out cables - bare bones, but I knew this before buying. My main gripe is that I got 937.77gigs of space. Read more
Published 12 months ago by martok
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works Fine
I works as intended. Not sure what else needs to be said in a hard drive review. I put it in a desktop I built for my friend's birthday and have heard no complaints. *shrug*
Published 13 months ago by Slynk
