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(33 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Clarify the packaging issues:,
September 8, 2011 bluescreenofwin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Desktop Class Spinpoint F3 1 TB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives, HD103SJ (Personal Computers)
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!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great hard drive, HORRIBLE packaging (1st shipment),
September 16, 2011 Review Person - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung Desktop Class Spinpoint F3 1 TB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives, HD103SJ (Personal Computers)
Customer Video Review Length:: 2:00 Mins
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2 of 4 gone bad (glad I bought four to begin with),
September 15, 2011 Kevin Meade (CT USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung Desktop Class Spinpoint F3 1 TB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives, HD103SJ (Personal Computers)
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...Read more
