Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1 - Write Issues

[Zak33]

such a shame that we get a good manuifacturer making fast drives but quite a lot of incompatibility with mobo's and a few additional drive failures over whatyou might hope for.

I've got one too and it won't install Vista to it but is ok formated BY Vista as a second drive. Maddening. But I'll be sticking with WD & Hitachi for future.

[Rabs]

I know its not ideal but get a cheap SATA controller card and run from that? This definately smells of an incompatible bios/chipset issue - probably some bad bios driving values but getting Asus to change it never mind admitting it is brickwallville.

[BiBenDuM]

Hi again, thanks for the replies

My 3 Samsung work fine on a secondary esata controller but ... I wonder if the WD work so fine instead ^^; I got a strange behaviour yesterday while copying data from one of them.

Transfer starts, pauses for 15-20 seconds and goes on, and again and again, 80Gb transfer completed but it's a very similar behaviour. (I noticed another transfer -with different drives- from an external esata Samsung 1Tb was paused, asking for an overwrite, so I finished it, and it seems the WD finished without pausing again but not sure as I didn't survey)

P5K Premium bios is up to date, maybe I'll check S.M.A.R.T. ON/OFF if I notice it again ... strange bug anyway (but when it works, R/W speeds are OK like 70-80 Mb/s, not like in the first post of this thread)

PSU is a Seasonic 600W changed recently / got a 550W Seasonic before.
E8400@3.9 / same behaviour without o/c.
PSU isn't overloaded / even if 10 HDD and multiple pcie/pci cards are sharing power, temps are low, every hdd has a fan ... computer is rock stable (can also take 4.2 ghz)

Everything work fine but 1Tb drive connected to the Intel controller ... I'll share any news I'll find about this.

See ya !!!

Edit : WD drives work way better anyway than the samsung ones the onboard intel sata ... not 100% perfect but they never totally hang up, so the pauses I got may come from something else as I'm trying the last supercopier beta on seven these days. (just an idea among others)

[mart!]

I've got one of these drives and been using it with an Icy Box NAS. Once the disk gets about 50% full it slows down so that copies to the NAS take ages. I've read that Samsung disks are not compatible with the Icy Box, which is too late now, so I may buy another disk instead.

[BiBenDuM]

As for me I don't think I'll buy Samsung drives for a long time by now.
I first took them for reliability and price as I got no big problems with my 320 Gb drives, but Western Digital as lowered prices to Samsung's levels and should be prefered in my opinion.

I believe Samsung should do something quickly about these (many) compatibility issues as they don't seem to get so many contracts with OEM's for what I see in every day computers I work on. (whatever the brand is.)

They were beginning to get a good reputation in people's head I think, even if they produce HDD for some time now this department has growed much these last two years, and this population may be the main market they got.

As I work for a little reseller as a tech, I've started changing my commands from Samsung to Western Digital, anyway it's strange it didn't start to make a buzz on the net, good for them I suppose.

I know every brand has ups and downs, I stopped buying WD drives several years ago has they became too noisy with time, and it was corrected, Seagate got this big firmware problem last year, and for me Hitachi still focus on performance but not reliability, but these Samsung bugs seem to be there since a long time now with nothing done to correct them

Time will tell ^^