Yikes dude, chill...
I'm not announcing a widespread Samsung HD failure epidemic, simply stating the obvious. :roll:
Newegg Customer Reviews for SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB...
John Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 1/13/2007
"My first one clicked a few times about 40% of the way through its format and XP's System Event Viewer showed bad blocks. Oh well, the 2nd drive has been running fine for 2-3 weeks."
redsyrup Ownership: 1 day to 1 week 2/16/2007
"One of the drives had a loose bit broken off of it, while the packagine appears completly undamaged, I will think that was a manufactuers defect? The second drive worked for 24 hours of that it had only been formated and large 250GB worth of data copied to it, after this there was a large pop, and the BIOS never heard from it again. Initaly the HD seemed ok, but be careful about pushing it toward 'normal HD' usage.
Zero Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 7/27/2007
"I ordered three of these drives, all identical. Two are performing flawlessly, one developed the "click of death" (though not allegedly a widespread issue with this drive model) within one day of operation. Samsung refuses to admit on their web site that they make this model of drive and refused to RMA it. Had to RMA through Newegg, at my shipping expense, week and a half wait, &c. If it were for a personal system I wouldn't care that much, but a 33% defective rate in a series of supposedly critically acclaimed drive purchased for a customer's system is simply unacceptable.
Brian Keys Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 6/28/2007
"Two out of three of these drives have failed within the first 30 days of using them. One was DOA and the second started failing two weeks later."
~tas Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 8/4/2007
"Nearly 4 months to date of purchase this HD failed - massive bad sectors. Tried to replace this with Samsung, but since the serial number wasn't accepted on their website there was nothing they would do. They only authorize returns thru the website. They had no answer why sn# wasn't being accepted."
nspanahi Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 7/13/2007
"They have a larger than usual percent that die or begin to die. Of the 24 I have ordered, 1 died all of a sudden (would not power up) and 3 begin giving errors (through my SMART status logs in my RAID controller) and died not long after. Age does not seem to matter, since one died after a few months and others died in a matter of days after getting them."
Tacoman Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 6/19/2007
"HDD started making clicking noises and froze my PC. I was able to get most of my data off before sending back. I ordered another second drive and that started to make the same clicking noises and could not be recognized by the BIOS."
coucha Ownership: 1 day to 1 week 3/2/2007
"Died the first day. System became very unstable after installing this drive."
no thanks
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 11/13/2007
"I got sucked in on price and a favorable review from a hardware site.
Had the drive 6 months, and I'm experiencing constant write errors and windows is running chkdsk on this one every time I boot up."
IL Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 11/13/2007
"Disk 1 lasted less than 4 months. Replacement from Samsung DOA RMA WEB site not beeing working for the last few days They do not respond to emails"
Plenty of other owners have reporded no problems with their drives at this time.