Heads up guys.

Wanna know why Samsung's 1TB F3 is bloody cheap at Jayacom? (RM181)

They're OEM drives. I bought 3 units today and checked the serials online, and got this:

The ones I bought at viewnet however, gives a code 100 (This product is under warranty. )

The drives come without the usual plastic housing and 4 screws. Instead you'll get a normal anti static bag. Oh and the warranty is a mere 1 year from the shop... not sure if it is possible to RMA directly to Samsung after that though. With Seagate I've managed to RMA some OEM drives... gonna ask Samsung about this.

The drives however are fine so far.

never seen this case before...
i got both my HD502HJ with the usual plastic housing

never seen samsung selling their drives in antistatic bag before...

but as for other brands such as WD and seagate... this case is very common

thanks for the head ups

Results of my ad-hoc testing using 2x 16GB Kingston 133x CF cards in RAID-0 on a CF-to-IDE adapter (BIOS recognizes two drives, RAID-0 setup under Win7 as BIOS does not support RAID for the IDE channels):

Files used: 4.6GB of DVD rip files
Read (from CF cards to WD Black): 42MB/s
Write (from WD Black to CF cards): 9MB/s

As expected the write speed was quite slow, while the read speed was actually not bad. I would imagine if I didn't RAID the cards, the speed would have been much slower.

Samsung's hot 1TB F3 is now RM189 at Viewnet... and they're not the OEM version so you'll get the nice and rare plastic housing plus 4 screws for each drive you purchase.

how did u check the serials online? and how many digits are the numbers? check from the plastic housing or on the hdd itself?

when i bought from them few days ago, i did get the plastic housing + 4 screws:

Check here:
http://www.samsunghddvalue.com/WebRMA/WarrantyCheck/

The serial number is on the drive. Check the status of your drive and post it here.
Since you got the plastic housing and screws... yours might not be OEM.

Did they tell you anything about the warranty?

guys, wanna know if firmware flashing affects the data on the drive? have a seagate with bad firmware, thinking of flashing to the updated firmware, but there's still data in the drive.

they tell got 1-year shop warranty & total 3 years samsung warranty. just checked the website you give & warranty until 2013. so i guess mine is not oem.

Man you are lucky. How many units did you purchase? And from which branch?

1 only, from jayacom on the highest lyp floor.

Checked both of my drives
Warranty till 2013 as well

may i know wats the difference between HDD of 32mb and 64mb??

like western digital 32mb, and 64mb is it the speed difference???

which is better?

Little difference.

A blue 16mb is still way fast than a 64mb green.

Just initial burst speed difference only.

WD 64mb is an Advance Format Drive with a 4k sector size. If you plan to use it on Win XP, you need to download a utility from WD to align the drives or it will crawl like a baby

Hey guys, i just got back my rma 500gb seagate. The thing is, it appears on my deviceanager, but not MyComputer, so i cant use it. im sure its connected properly.

Hope to get instructions for both xp and wins7.

Thanks

did u create a partition for it ?

Goto Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools

Computer Management > Disk Management


Create partition or initialize your disk from there.

Mind to tell me where to check the serials?
BTW, do we need to register the Samsung HDD online? Just got my spinpoint 1tb.

the serial should be on the hdd label.