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Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - MacArtist - 05-07-2008
Purchased from ZipZoomFly.com on April 4th. Installed it on April 24th.
Ran virtually silent for 1 week. Then it started making a strange noise about once every couple of hours. It completely died last night.
It will spin up. You head 2 or 3 audible clicks; then the drive stops spinning. It does not show up on the desktop or Disk Utility at all.
All info on it was backed up.
I am not going to speculate if Samsung had a bad batch. I have had drives slowly die but this one went fairly quickly for being a brand new drive.
ZipZoomFly has a 15 day warranty on the products they sell. I will have to go through Samsung for replacement.
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - mikebw - 05-07-2008
Good you had it all backed up, but still what a pain to deal with.
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - MacArtist - 05-07-2008
Samsung's website seems to be incompatible with Firefox and Safari. Had to fire up the PC and run Internet Explorer (yuck!) to request an RMA.
I hope their replacement process is quick.
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - dbow - 05-07-2008
I read somewhere, Anandtech maybe, that those drives were having major problems.
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - MacArtist - 05-07-2008
That's not good. Not good at all.
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - lafinfil - 05-07-2008
Guess we know why it's called the "F 1" now ....
: - /
Re: Had my first complete hard drive failure...Samsung Spinpoint 750 - simonm - 05-07-2008
In the storage array business it is not uncommon to run big machines for 3 months in a test phase because you expect to loose some drives. For personal drives, I begin to feel safe when I've used th drive for about 30 days.