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Samsung or the Seagate HDD ! My Advice---Seagate is better.

15 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/samsung-or-the-seagate-hdd-my-advice-seagate-is-better.23552/

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dabster Original post #1
Feb 10, 2006 at 5:09 PM
Samsung HDD's are really Bad???
I am having two Hard disk both Samsung of which 1 is 14 months old and other is 4 months old...This 4 months old Harddisk has Bad Sectors on it(Have no Idea from where did they came)
and other one creates a lot of Creepy Noise all the Time ...
Now I have given the harddisk for replacement to my Dealer, But Recently I found a Page on Samsung Site that They Only replace the HDD with the Refurbished Drives....
*www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/warranty/index.htm
Which is Not so with Seagate HDD They Always give the NEW one....
I advice you people to go for seagate hard disks, one of my friends is using Seagate HDD from last 3 years and No problems till now..

Please tell me Yr Experience with Samsung...Though mine was bad...

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Anurag
Kniwor
Kniwor #2
Feb 10, 2006 at 7:11 PM
i prefer seagate over samsung because i too have a bad experience with samsung....
2 samsung HDD's died on me....
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dabster #3
Feb 11, 2006 at 3:39 PM
Yes, I would say that samsung is the worst performer in Hard disk area and anybody thinking of buying new Hard disk should go for the Segate Sata Hard disks....
mohit
mohit #4
Feb 11, 2006 at 4:00 PM
i prefer seagate over both samsung n hitachi. jst had a real bad experience with hitachi and i am still waiting for the replacement .. its been more than a month now. hitachi sux big time. seagate gives u replacement in a day or two at the max.
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gxsaurav #5
Feb 11, 2006 at 6:33 PM
i m using a samsung 80 GB SATA HD, on Intel 865GBF motherboard, so far from the last 1.5 years, hardly any problem ever, although i remember paying a premium at that time for it
ashu888ashu888
Feb 11, 2006 at 7:14 PM
Samsung Sucks big time.... :evil: :evil: My 40 GB PATA SAMSUNG HDD went out of order in jus 2 yrs. now hv a Seagate SATA HDD 160 GB and it rocks.... :twisted:

cheers n e-peace....
phatratt
Feb 11, 2006 at 8:36 PM
I don't find samsung hdd that bad,coz one of my friend has one 20GB from past 4 years and not a single problem till now.But still i prefer segate over samsung coz they provide 5-year warranty and service centers are strewn all over the country.
goobimama
Feb 12, 2006 at 12:48 AM
I guess seagate is a clear winner in hard disk drives. I have had some good experiences with Western Digital as well. Maxtor? No way. Two hard drives crashed, taking all my movies with them...
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Feb 12, 2006 at 12:55 AM
well my external maxtor hasn't shown any problems till date...neither has my internal samsung 80gb which i've been using for the past 5 years...
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dabster #10
Feb 12, 2006 at 1:39 PM
gxsaurav said:
i m using a samsung 80 GB SATA HD, on Intel 865GBF motherboard, so far from the last 1.5 years, hardly any problem ever, although i remember paying a premium at that time for it

Mine Showed signs of death in 3 months itself. Bad sectors are detected on 1st partition by the Checkdisk utility.... :evil: :evil:
vaibhav_jain
Dec 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM
in my view WD is more best than seagate and samsung. i have a seagate 7200.10 hdd 250gb and it gives me pain 4 times in the same year i purchased it. everytime there is severe loss of huge data.
L
Dec 29, 2008 at 1:39 AM
3 Hard Disk and Its Segate.
ajai5777
ajai5777 #14
Dec 29, 2008 at 2:34 AM
My old seagate sata was 80gb.when i tried to upgrade it by buying a samsung160 hdd,a big problem occurred;new hdd(samsung)always burns when i boot the system after 3 replacements i sold it.Everyone said it was my pcs problem at last i decided to test my pc with a new seagate(as the old one is fine) the new seagate 250 installed and its working properly.
kalpik
kalpik #15
Dec 29, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Old thread bumped!