Well I read about all the failures people had on newegg w/ the 1TB model and so I decided to go w/ the 640GB model hoping it would be more reliable...
My drive died after less than 3 weeks of use (SMART is reporting a dead drive). It may or may not be representative but given the seemingly high failure rates of the 1TB model, I'd stay away from Samsung...
FYI Samsung HD642JJ may have same problems as 1TB model...
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Samsung has lot of good drives, but their F1 ones seem problematic, at least bigger ones.
Like you, my co-worker bought HD642JJ. Its performance was miserable (about 60-80MB/s throughput), drive died on second day. He returned this drive to shop, he was told that almost all HD642JJ drives were returned - bad batch likely.
He then bought 1TB version of F1, this's working well so far (about two weeks). But again performance seems somewhat worse than advertised, although not much.
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Reading newegg user comments, only reliable big drive seems WD6400AAKS - very few negative comments. All Samsung and Segate bigger (640GB+) drives have high failure rate; WD 1TB+ drivers are not ideal either.
Like you, my co-worker bought HD642JJ. Its performance was miserable (about 60-80MB/s throughput), drive died on second day. He returned this drive to shop, he was told that almost all HD642JJ drives were returned - bad batch likely.
He then bought 1TB version of F1, this's working well so far (about two weeks). But again performance seems somewhat worse than advertised, although not much.
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Reading newegg user comments, only reliable big drive seems WD6400AAKS - very few negative comments. All Samsung and Segate bigger (640GB+) drives have high failure rate; WD 1TB+ drivers are not ideal either.