Samsung drives are from HELL

[Aj2]

I have had to deal with about 10 of these HD###LJ drive failures in the last few months.

if you have a samsung branded drive built in the last few years. BACK UP NOW!

if you have to run chkdsk /r once on that drive? image it now, not later.

so many of my customers have had failed drives like this.

Try to find a firmware that is supposed to resolve this?

No way. not available due to the seagate buyout. no information is available on them any more.

I am looking for the updated firmware for a HD753LJ if anyone can help.

Thanks

 

[cypress]

Yeah those Samsung mechanical drives are no good. Now when it comes to the SSD it is a different story.

 

[lcoughey]

I suggest that you never run chkdsk on a drive without being 100% certain that it is 100% backed up. chkdsk changes to the MFT cannot be reversed and can make a huge mess to the file system on a failing drive.

As for Samsung, we recover data from Samsung hard drives too.

 

[Aj2]

Yeah those Samsung mechanical drives are no good. Now when it comes to the SSD it is a different story.

I have seen issues with them too. Not as much though, to be fair

 

[Go-To Gordon]

Back before they were made by Seagate all I used for a few years were the HD103SJ 1tb's. Had tons of them and still do. That said I have one in my bench machine (storage only) and today out of nowhere 355 bad sectors. I check S.M.A.R.T all the time so I know it was "clean" yesterday. Not basing this on smart only as the reason I checked it was performance related. Confirmed with diagnostic software. To go from none to 355 in a day is impressive. Of course it's just a minor inconvenience as everything is backed up.

BTW their ssd's are actually made by them last I knew and not seagate.

 

[Aj2]

Back before they were made by Seagate all I used for a few years were the HD103SJ 1tb's. Had tons of them and still do. That said I have one in my bench machine (storage only) and today out of nowhere 355 bad sectors. I check S.M.A.R.T all the time so I know it was "clean" yesterday. Not basing this on smart only as the reason I checked it was performance related. Confirmed with diagnostic software. To go from none to 355 in a day is impressive. Of course it's just a minor inconvenience as everything is backed up.

BTW their ssd's are actually made by them last I knew and not seagate.

yup, all at around the 2.5 year mark have in the space of a day or 2 just ground to a halt and bad sectors.

at least they are under warranty.

problem with that is that you get another samsung back

 

[Go-To Gordon]

2.5 years would be after seagate bought them. so blame seagate not "Samsung". all the Samsung drives I have are non segate and besides the one failure they all have been tanks.

ps I hate seagate

 

[bertie40]

I'm utterly bewildered by the reliability issues of most drives these days.

Is anyone actually manufacturing drives that last ?

ATM, I'm putting my faith in WD blacks and reds.

... And this is where you all scream at me "are you insane" ?

It's a minefield.