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- Formatted Capacity - 1 TB
- Spindle Speed - 7200 RPM
- Interface Type - SATA 3 Gb/s Buffer DRAM Size - 32 MB
- Form Factor - Desktop Hard Drive
- Warranty - 3 Years
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SAM HD103SJ 1TB SATA II 32MB
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81 of 85 people found the following review helpful
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This is my fifth Samsung 1tb drive. They are by far the best in this size and class. I am using them exclusively in my custom build computers. I highly recommend this drive to anyone needing a fast, quite, and reliable drive.
However, you will want to get it elsewhere. What the hell is going on with Amazon and the shipping department!!! After reading the emails about their packaging I thought that Amazon would correct this. HELL NO!!! I just received the drive today. I cannot believe how the drive was packed. It was in a box alone with no, I repeat, no packaging at all. The drive was in the OEM plastic clam-shell container with nothing around it. This thing was slip-sliding around in the box for the past few days!! I am afraid to install it. This is ridiculous! This is not what I would expect from Amazon. I was forewarned by all the feedback. Unfortunately I did not heed the warnings hoping that mighty Amazon would do better. Well it did not happen. This is insane!! Shame on you Amazon. I will return the drive at their cost and go to Newegg. They know how to ship drives and delicate electronics.
UPDATE: NOT AGAIN!!!! After calling customer support to express my dissatisfaction with the way they shipped the last hard drive (which I returned) they said they would send a new one but ensure that it was shipped correctly. NOT!!! The replacement was shipped the exact same way. What is the problem here?! This one is going back again. This time I will take a refund and pass on getting hard drives from Amazon.
However, you will want to get it elsewhere. What the hell is going on with Amazon and the shipping department!!! After reading the emails about their packaging I thought that Amazon would correct this. HELL NO!!! I just received the drive today. I cannot believe how the drive was packed. It was in a box alone with no, I repeat, no packaging at all. The drive was in the OEM plastic clam-shell container with nothing around it. This thing was slip-sliding around in the box for the past few days!! I am afraid to install it. This is ridiculous! This is not what I would expect from Amazon. I was forewarned by all the feedback. Unfortunately I did not heed the warnings hoping that mighty Amazon would do better. Well it did not happen. This is insane!! Shame on you Amazon. I will return the drive at their cost and go to Newegg. They know how to ship drives and delicate electronics.
UPDATE: NOT AGAIN!!!! After calling customer support to express my dissatisfaction with the way they shipped the last hard drive (which I returned) they said they would send a new one but ensure that it was shipped correctly. NOT!!! The replacement was shipped the exact same way. What is the problem here?! This one is going back again. This time I will take a refund and pass on getting hard drives from Amazon.
78 of 85 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
Ok so I was hoping that some of the previous reviews of terrible packaging were untrue but they are true. I received this drive in a small thin box, inside there was NO packing material at all. None, Nada... Wow. The plastic casing that the drive comes in was open, and the drive was just flopping away inside the box all the way to my house. How can a huge company like Amazon not understand how bad this is? This is not a book, its a harddrive, this kind of movement destroys drives. I requested a replacement and we will see how that goes. Amazon is going downhill it would seem earlier this week I ordered another item and it never made it into the mail, they assigned a tracking number but the shipper never received it. Now this. I am quickly losing faith in Amazon. At least the customer service is good, but the shipping is the worst it has ever been.
Update: I just received a replacement harddrive and I received a drive in the same condition. Very frustrating. This one came in a bigger box, the clam shell with the drive placed in the box with 4 airbags on top. So there was padding on one side but not the other. UPS shipped my drive from Nevada to Kentucky then back to California, so the drive took quite a ride and the whole time with padding on just one side. I emailed Amazon and asked why the drive was not wrapped in bubble wrap. Is this so hard? Why are some drives being packaged correctly and others just dropped into a box and shipped? Since this is a replacement, and I told them exactly why I was returning this, it is totally unacceptable. They should have been notes placed on the replacement order to the shipping dept that they need to wrap the drive correctly, obviously there were no notes.
Update: I just received a replacement harddrive and I received a drive in the same condition. Very frustrating. This one came in a bigger box, the clam shell with the drive placed in the box with 4 airbags on top. So there was padding on one side but not the other. UPS shipped my drive from Nevada to Kentucky then back to California, so the drive took quite a ride and the whole time with padding on just one side. I emailed Amazon and asked why the drive was not wrapped in bubble wrap. Is this so hard? Why are some drives being packaged correctly and others just dropped into a box and shipped? Since this is a replacement, and I told them exactly why I was returning this, it is totally unacceptable. They should have been notes placed on the replacement order to the shipping dept that they need to wrap the drive correctly, obviously there were no notes.
45 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I should have listened. As of 9/2/2010 Amazon has still failed to figure out how to package a delicate electronic device. If you order this here, you deserve the failed hard drive you will inevitably get. Mine lasted THREE DAYS before windows seven told me the disk was failing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
MISLABELED
This drive is Model # HD103 SI that model number is a 5400RPM drive recently discovered upon receiving my drive.. Read more
Published 26 days ago by S. Mann
Help
Hi everyone,
i'm building a customized computer using the GIGABYTEATXIntelGA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard. Read more
i'm building a customized computer using the GIGABYTEATXIntelGA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard. Read more
Published 2 months ago by myar
It has been working for 15 months without issues
I have had this hard drive for 15 months so far, and it has been working without any issues. I keep it cool with a fan blowing air on it at all times, when my computer is on. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Alberto
Really?
I purchased this drive on August 10, and paid $49.99. While I appreciate the fact that I paid less than $50. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mark Spencer
Does the job
I picked up one of these drives at a bargain price from Amazon Warehouse Deals - no issues whatsoever, performs well, and added to an old machine adds tons of disk space. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Howard
Great hard drive
I agree with some people that the packaging was kind of underwhelming. That aside, since I am reviewing the product and not the packaging, I gotta say it is a decent little hard... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Kazaam
Good buy
Nice and quick. Good price. Could have been packaged better for shipment, but arrived ok. Been using it ever since with no issues.
Published 7 months ago by Joseph Oliver
Samsung 1tb Spinpoinr
Solid drive. I've purchased 3 of these drives and never had a problem wirh one. I use them mainly for archiving, The drive is fast and quiet. I'm quite happy with the product.
Published 8 months ago by Jimmy Lew
Beware of RAID 5 issues!
I have a Dell Poweredge T310 with hotswap backplane with PERC 6i controller that has major issues with these drives even though they are qualified with this system and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by PGM
THIS PRODUCT IS FRAUDULENT!
Avoid this at all costs! This is NOT the actual HD103J model! It is actually the inferior HD103I model, and the rpm is actually 5,400, not 7,200. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Hank
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