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Samsung 1 TB Spinpoint 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.5 inch Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive HD103SI

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Digital Storage Capacity	1 TB
Hard Disk Interface	Serial ATA
Connectivity Technology	SATA
Brand	SAMSUNG
Hard Disk Form Factor	3.5 Inches
Compatible Devices	desktop
Hard Disk Size	1 TB
Hard Disk Rotational Speed	7200
Specific Uses For Product	personal
Cache Size	32

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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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The unconditional warranty for the drive applies while under normal use for a period of six months after date of purchase. Your sole remedy in the event of defect in the drives is limited to repair or replacement of the drives as provided above. Except as expressly provided above, Eagle Computer Tech makes no warranties, either express or implied, with respect to the hard drive as to its merchant ability or its fitness for any particular purpose. Eagle Computer Tech shall in no event be liable to purchaser for indirect damage of any kind.

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SAM HD103SJ 1TB SATA II 32MB

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Product Dimensions

4 x 5.79 x 1.03 inches

Item Weight

1.38 pounds

ASIN

B001U3S5S0

Item model number

HD103SI

Customer Reviews

204 ratings

3.9 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#3,334 in Internal Hard Drives
#51,280 in Computer Internal Components

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

August 28, 2009

Manufacturer

Samsung

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3.9 out of 5

204 global ratings

5 star		56%
4 star		16%
3 star		7%
2 star		9%
1 star		13%

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Phil Smith

12 years and 100% life!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2022

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So, this hard drive has been amazing! Literally over 5 years of power on time, and Hard Drive Sentinel rates its performance at 100%. No longer available on Amazon, but if you happen to find this in a bargain bin, and need a little extra space, jump on this.

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Nah

Good drive for the price.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2011

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First impressions:
Bought four of these Samsung drives. They're a little heavier and bulky (actually normal sized drives) compared to the Seagate Barracude 7200.12 drives they replaced (Barracuda drives are a little thinner). I found the Barracudas to be excellent drives and would also recommend them. My Barracudas had passed the two year mark and being that I use my drives heavily for video/audio I replace them every 2 years for data safety. I decided to give the Samsungs a try as they have been recommended to me and I found a great deal here on Amazon.

Noise level: quite, about the same as the Seagate. One drive will be quieter than your PC/Mac fans but two or more will add some noise to the system in a quite space such as a sound room. I'd post noise levels but I left my meter at work.

Temp: These drives run a little warmer than expected and just a few degrees more than the Seagates on average. You can expect around 100-105 F average on the system drive at idle in a room with 75F ambient temp (2009 8-core Mac Pro Tower). Under heavy load temps can get up there but are still within a good range (again this is in a system with very good air flow). In a raid set up temps are a little lower in heavy load as each drive is working less.

Speed: Speed is good and a little faster than the Seagates but not astronomical. Your life wont change but I would have to say these are some of the faster 7200rpm SATA3 drives out there in this price range.

Speed in a raid 0: Have 3 of these drives in a software raid stripe and have seen 420+ MB/sec trans speeds in sequential and just shy of 400 in random. Of course the size of your blocks, system, and software or hardware raid will all effect your speed.

Speed from sleep mode: FYI, if your using these drives for multimedia then you really need to turn off the sleep option for the drives in your system settings. These drives take years to wake up, especially in a raid stripe. Doing this will kill the "energy savings" these drives are reported to have... so don't buy these drives for energy saving reasons... if your working with multimedia you should already know this.

Dependability: We will see as I haven't had them long enough yet. So far so good.

Packaging: COME ON AMAZON! The four drives came in a large box, which is good. Two of the drives were packaged very well in their own small boxes with proper support. The other two drives were just floating around the big box (they were in anti static packaging). The big box was in turn stuffed with air bag packing but not enough to stop drives from drifting around. What happened Amazon?!? Did your employee pack two drives before lunch then came back too lazy to finish the job right? Why is packaging a problem with Amazon 50% of the time?

over all I can recommend these drives.

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Warranty Period Not For A Full 3 Years

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2011

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Slight improvement in the packaging (LOL). I ordered two of these hard drives. They came in one box that had five, half-inflated, air pillows to "protect" them! I understand that OEM drives are shipped in clam-shell packaging, but as others have said here, at least package them so they are secure in the box. I cannot believe that it is cheaper for Amazon/Samsung to replace broken drives than it is to use quality shipping material. I will diffently be using Samsung's hard drive diagnostic utility software (ES Tool301) to check these drives before putting them into service ([...])

But get this, per Samsung's website the warranties for these two drives expire Oct 2013 and not Dec 2013, my purchase month. What happened to the last two months? Did Samsung start the warranty period when the store/Amazon ordered them? My drives came from an Amazon marketplace store (Goodios by Brainstorm Corp). I talked to Amazon customer service and they have referred me to Samsung to see if they can resolve the issue. I'll be calling them on Monday.

As far as quality of these drives, I cannot brag about them. I just returned a 1Tb and a 750GB to Samsung that I had for about 18 months. Both drives failed within one day of each other. The 1TB drive was my main data drive and it failed just after I backed it up to another Samsung 1TB drive. The 1TB got the click of death and the 750GB was starting to fail according to the SMART message I kept getting upon starting my computer; plus this drive saw very little use. I used it to archive video. After coping some files from it to my computer drive, it failed. Samsung's RMA process was very easy. Took about 10 days to get replacement drives (thank God I backup my drives). Samsung also sent a 1TB hard drive in exchange for the 750GB that I sent in. The exchanged drives were not Samsung's latest and greatest drives, but newer models than I sent in. My personal opinion about hard drives: It is what it is. None of them are prefect. You cannot find any hard drive with a prefect performance record. A drive can be loved and hated by so many. Technology, you got love it. (I also checked the warranty periods on the exchanged drives that Samsung sent me. They were covered correctly and they came shipped to me in Samsung's retail hard drive boxes. All nicely packaged in foam.)

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R. F. Stevens

Solid, reliable, quiet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 18, 2013

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I have two of these in my Synology DS212J Raid enclosure and bought a third as a brand-new unused matching spare for when Murphy's Law struck and I needed to replace one of the fitted Raid drives. For the last couple of years the third drive has sat untouched in the original packing because after a quick and painless install the pair in the Raid box have functioned perfectly. With any luck the spare will never need to be used.

One can hear them quietly muttering to themselves when the Raid box starts up as one of the PCs logs into the network, but that is about it, operation is otherwise almost silent, and the temperature controlled fan on the back of the Synology box hardly ever needs to wake up, just on the odd hot summer's day.

These 5400rpm drives are not the fastest, partly because of being fitted in a Raid array, and so the Synology Giganet interface is not stressed, but in this application reliability is top of my list and both the drives in use seem to be doing very well with no errors reported on either by the internal diagnostics system.

This is a good-value medium-size low-stress drive when found at the best market rates (3:1 retail range observed!) and so is recommended.

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PDean

Died very quickly. Not recommended :(

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 8, 2016

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>>>>I had this for a few months before it failed. Disappointed. The WD drives I have had for over 5 years are all fine. Possibly I was unlucky . I did not over stress the drive. Would not recommend, may be buy a Western digital instead!
>THE GOOD: Quiet
>THE BAD: has died very quickly

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Yousuf E. M. Ebrahim

The Best HDD I have ever purchased

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 30, 2010

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I am realy happy and amazed of this HDD. It is so quiet and it does not get very hot. My 4 year daughter dropped it on a ceramic floor and to my astonishment, it kept working as if nothing happened. It is amazing!!!

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Mr. D. R. Clayton

hard disk drive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 10, 2014

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just loaded it with a linux system zorin and its brilliant so much better than windows its more stable, cheers

Martin of Sutton

reliable in the long term?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2015

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I purchased and installed mine back in 2010. I've just replaced mine (2015) following disk failure warnings and incredibly slow performance. The replacement WD has brought my system back to life. Ok for a while, I would avoid buying another

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