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Return Policies
This item is covered by Newegg.com's Standard Return Policy.
- Return for refund within: 30 days
- Return for replacement within: 30 days
- Restocking Fee: Yes
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Backup Beauties
- Pros: * great design
* low power (see OT below - IMPRESSIVE!)
* low noise (extremely quiet)
* reliability
* not too slow
* great price
- Cons: none
- Other Thoughts: I bought 3 of these 6 months ago for my backup server - an old Dell P3 with stock PSU on a gigabit LAN. I needed lots of storage, low power, and low noise. I was pleasantly surprised at how fast these drives are. Faster than you would probably expect from a 5400 RPM drive (sorry no test specs I can remember, but these are NOT your old 5400 RPM drives), and plenty fast enough for my backup server. On 24/7 with nightly backups from 7 computer systems (one with 2 scheduled backups). [BTW - I recommend Acronis Workstation for Windows backups] Of special note is the low power consumption. Stock PSU for old P3 (forget it's rating and it's tucked away at the moment - probably not more than 200 watt). Also has gigabit LAN card, SATA PCI controller, USB 2.0 card, and CD-ROM drive (plus CPU, fan, and mobo power, of course). NO problems or read/write errors for 6 months. Super happy, and I can't speak highly enough of these drives. I plan to buy more!
Samsung is the best
- Pros: As expected, this drive performed well out of the box. I've had several Samsung HDDs before and this one performs just as well as the ones I had.
- Cons: None.
Ordered 2, and 2 died
- Pros: Good price at the time
- Cons: Known problems with these drives. at least in some batches
- Other Thoughts: 1 drive died within 30 days, newegg was awesome and actually refunded my money. the other drive died about 5 months after purchase. Samsung hopefully will replace with a drive that works. Otherwise will never buy a samsung drive again.
| Model |
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SAMSUNG |
| Model |
HD103UI |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity |
1TB |
| RPM |
5400 RPM |
| Cache |
32MB |
| Average Seek Time |
8.9ms |
| Average Latency |
5.52ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
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Reviewed By: Home IT Mgr on 4/24/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
