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Скроменый эксперт
07.04.2013
2/10
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I bought this drive 1.5 years ago and it is just failed on my Qnap 219P+. Very disappointing fortunately it was setup as raid 10. I was not using it heavily occasional laptop backup, etc nothing exotic like video or sound streaming.
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28.01.2012
2/10
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I figured the only way to get this memo read was to post it on the one star listings. Those are usually the ones I read first, especially if I am considering purchase or the like. I knew about the firmware issue long ago and have even had experience with losing my data to the issue first hand. Which is why I configured 4 of them in a Raid 5 and forgot about it until today when one of them posted bad so I figured I had better do the firmware update on it so it did not occur again. The DOM or Date Of Manufacture of the drive is 10/11, and so well within the faulty firmware period running until 2/11 in which they corrected the problem. Luckily Intel has a great program for its newer ich10 raid controller in Windows to rebuild the drive set for me. On with the firmware some additional notes I see on the firmware which caused some trouble for me: hiren dot info forward slash pages forward slash boot cd-on-usb-disk has a good guide on how to make a USB drive boot and the Firmware is needed is called F4EG which caused some issues at some guides say to run 204iu at the command prompt i.e. is actually F4EG AND you must have your computer connected to the internet to run the program as if not it will say failure and will say that you have successfully completed it if in runs and if nothing happens and you are sure that the drive have never been update restart and try again.
Скроменый эксперт
27.06.2012
2/10
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The recent reviews are correct. You are not buying a Samsung HD204UI when you buy this drive.It is mislabeled in Amazon, and I hope they do something about it.When you get the drive it will have a Seagate logo with the model: ST2000DL004 HD204UI Green.So its up to you to decide if you were in the market for a Seagate drive, or a Samsung.I was replacing my last Seagate drive after it failed last week. (yes. all 4 of my Seagates that I bought 2 years ago have now failed)Seagate was once an amazing and trusted drive company. But they've gone the way of the others and sacrificed quality for sales and a friendship with Costco. They bought up the rest of their competition and force you to use an inferior product.What a shame.Buyer beware.
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14.10.2012
4/10
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The device worked well for a couple of weeks then died. It's under warranty from Samsung/Seagate and I can RMA it, but it's time without the drive. I have another one in a Tivo that has been in there or several months and hasn't been a problem.
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18.05.2012
4/10
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Now that Seagate has finished acquiring and digesting Samsung's Hard Drive business, they have started selling Chinese produced "ST2000DL004" Baracuda Green drives with "Samsung HD204UI" markings and only 1 year warranties. The genuine Samsung HD204UI drives come with 3 year warranties. If you still want buy an HD204UI, be sure it is not some remarked Seagate drive. The Seagate drives are reported to produce loud "clicking", slow formatting and other mechanical clues that it's not the same drive at all. I've included a close up of the HD204UI drive label in the product photos showing a genuine Samsung HD204UI.Caveat Emptor!!
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27.12.2010
10/10
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I purchased the Samsung F4 2TB hard drive after thoroughly reading many of the reviews and after overcoming my initial shyness over the lowly 5400RPM spindle speed. Like many people out there I was brainwashed into believing that higher RPM's is better; which is true to a point. You would want a higher spindle speed for your OS or programs (but then you might as well get yourself an SSD (solid-state drive).But I just wanted something for storage, and for that purpose this hard drive works great. 2TB of storage for $79.99 (sweet sale price when I got it from amazon) could simply not be beat. Keep in mind that after formatting you really only get 1.81TB (due to the bytes and all scheme they got going on).Packaging was okay from amazon. It basically came in a box within a larger box. The hard drive itself was packaged in a somewhat hard plastic shell and held in place by two light plastic holders within that one box. There were no foam nuts and any other sort of packaging in place to protect the hard drive but I don't believe this affected the drive while in transit.The drive does NOT come with any SATA cables; so be sure to have one handy. Also, it requires a SATA power connector to your PSU; which most people should know already but make sure your PSU has extra (most modern ones should come with at least one ribbon full of SATA power connectors). The only thing that came with the drive is 4 screws so that you can secure it to your case. Other than that it's as barebones as it gets.After installing the hard drive into my Antec 300, I performed a long format which took a few hours. Then I began copying over files from a Western Digital 1TB Elements drive, which was only USB 2.0. Per Windows 7, I was getting write speeds of over 30MB/s; which was pretty damn impressive (at least to me). I did read somewhere that as the hard drive is nearing capacity that read/write speeds may slow down considerably but hey, for 2TB costing $79.99 with no tax and shipping and for pure storage this is really a non-issue for me. Great drive, low temperatures, cheap, and runs super quiet (I cannot backup claims made by an earlier reviewer that there is a pitched whine but that's just me). I totally plan on buying another one when the price is right again from amazon.
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11.01.2011
8/10
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This review is for the Samsung F4EG 2TB HD204UI drives, 5400RPM, 32MB of cache.UPDATE: If you need or want to update your firmware, but cannot find the FAQ through the Samsung or Seagate sites, I have the info on my blog (just visit my profile and click on the link to my webpage). Unfortunately, Amazon removed the links that will take you to the download sites.Original Review:I already have two of these drives in my PC workstation, and so far I am very impressed with them. When I saw that the Amazon price dropped below [...], I jumped on the "Add to Cart" button and purchased several of these Samsung drives. At a bargain price of less than 80 bucks a drive, it's a great cost/GB value!I tested a drive with NTFS formatting (default allocation unit size; 4K). I did not update the firmware (yet). The drive is hooked up to an internal SATA II 3.0Gb/s controller on the motherboard of a Dell Precision 490 Workstation. I ran some benchmarks using HD Tune Pro, and at first I could not believe the numbers. These 5400 drives are posting numbers like some of my 7200 drives! I ran at least three runs for each value, and posted the average.I ran a benchmark test on these drives using my workstation with the following specs:Dell Precision 490, Quad-core Intel Xeon 5300, 4GB DDR2 fully buffered DIMM 667MHz ECC memory, Dual ATI FireGL V7200, WD Raptor 160 GB, WinXP Pro SP3With HD Tune:Average operational temp 27 degrees C (It's also cold in my office, about 18 oC):Average read 105.2 MB/s (Min and Max @ 59.7 and 147.2 MB/s, respectively)Access time: 15.9msBurst rate: 193.9 MB/sAverage write 103.4 MB/s (Min/Max @ 60.2/149.7 MB/s, respectively)Access time: 14.1msBurst rate: 148.6 MB/sAs you can see, the data transfer from these benchmark values is quite fast, given that it is a 5400rpm drive.I have no complaints with the noise. I've also tried this drive on a StarTech external HDD dock and it is relatively quiet. In addition to HD Tune, I may run the new drives in CrystalDiskMark, and I will also see how these perform in my D-Link DNS-343 NAS box. Results pending.I am very impressed with these Samsung drives, happy I purchased them, and very happy I got them for such a deal.
Скроменый эксперт
16.02.2012
6/10
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Плохо
One of the 3 drives I ordered were DOA (dead on arrival). I could not format the other two in my new Mac Pro (mid 2010) with Lion. It kept saying that it could not unmount the drives.I told the seller (Platinum Micro, Inc.) the situation and that I wanted to return them. They told me I should download a firmware update for the drives. But since Samsung is now Seagate, and Seagate doesn't support Samsung (bad business practice!), I couldn't find a firmware update - especially not for my Mac Pro. So I told the seller that, and they gave me an RMA to return them.I received the refund in a timely manner.
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21.06.2011
6/10
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Плохо
The hardware on this drive is pretty good, but the software and service are a mess.The drive was released with a serious bug in the firmware. OK, it happens. But their implementation has a couple big problems:(1) Rather than creating a burnable ISO, they just offer an executable file - you have to know how to create your own DOS boot disk to run it; that's ridiculous, most people can't do that. They need to give people an ISO, ready to burn and boot.(2) After you patch the firmware, THE FIRMWARE VERSION NUMBER DOESN'T CHANGE! What!? So when you get a new drive with 1AQ10001 firmware, you have no way of knowing if it's the patched firmware or the buggy firmware. I've been doing this for a long time, and have never seen that.There are a few other issues that will affect some people.- You can't configure this drive to use only 1.5Gbps unless you first install it in a SATA2 system and set it, then move it to the SATA1 system. Sure, it only affects older systems, but a jumper or something would help. Or at least some warning.-And, like many newer drives that use 4KB sectors, for media servers or XP systems you may have to use the sector align tool.There's a Hitachi 2TB green drive that avoids all these issues, may be simpler for some: Hitachi Deskstar 2 TB 3.5-Inch CoolSpin RPM SATA III 6Gbps 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0F12117
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09.04.2012
10/10
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Pros:-So far, so good! Only time will tell. Got this October 2011-Pretty speedy transfer rates for a 5400rpm drive. I get 50-150MB/s averaging at around 100MB/s-Fast access time when awake-2TB of spacious storageCons:-The drive goes to sleep after some inactivity and it takes a few seconds to wake up
Скроменый эксперт
27.05.2011
8/10
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I purchased 5 of these drives to build an 8TB RAID5 array (onboard RAID on the motherboard). They were 2010 vintage drives so the first thing I did was update the firmware on them. (I had all the drives connected and booted from a USB stick flashed with FreeDOS and the firmware update...it flashed each in turn, so I didn't need to swap out and reboot for each drive) Everything was fine for about a week and then the RAID management software notified me that one of the drives had failed. I notified Amazon and they sent out a replacement drive right away. One thing about RAID5 arrays...making changes takes forever. It took a 2 days to initialize my array and 4 days to rebuild it after replacing the failed drive. A week later the RAID management software came up with an error indicating that the replacement drive could not be found. Turns out the SATA connector had come loose. I immediately ordered new SATA cables with the metal clips on the end that lock the connector in place. Overall I'm very happy with these drives. They're fast enough to stream HD material throughout the house, they're absolutely quiet, and the price is outstanding. My only real concern is the 20% failure rate, but Amazon really came through quickly with a replacement.
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12.09.2011
8/10
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Love the drives! The first order came packaged as expected (separate boxes, clam shell shock absorbers). The drives were easy to install and format. Start a format and find something else to do, it's going to be a looooong time.**Beware of making one of these drives as your booter**First off- the killer for performance is the 5400rpm. Transfer of huge amounts of data on the same drive becomes slow. The Samsung HD103UJ's that I was replacing are faster than the HD204UI's. I decided to keep a HD103 as a boot drive and the 204UI's as warehouse space. If you are doing media compression, I would suggest keeping a 103 and move your finished projects over to the slower 204's.
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14.07.2011
10/10
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This review is for the Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB SATA2 5400rpm 32mb Hard DRive HD204UI/Z4. I wanted an external drive to backup my computer, but have not been able to find an external drive that doesn't come with junk backup software and a myriad of technical problems. Therefore, I decided to buy this internal drive (which has pretty good reviews) and a hard-drive enclosure (Thermaltake Max 5 Active Cooling Hard Drive Enclosure with Two 80mm Blue LED Fans USB 2.0 eSATA ST0021U, which had excellent reviews) and create my own external backup. So far, the results have been EXCELLENT. I was able to install the drive into the enclosure with no trouble whatsoever, and the backup runs like a champ. Quiet, speed is sufficient for my needs, price was reasonable. If it continues to work as it has so far, I may re-order and create another, redundant backup.
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13.12.2011
2/10
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Purchased 5/3/2011 today, 12/13/2011, I had a failure of one of the drives in a RAID array. I went to RMA with Samsung only to be directed to Seagate who directed me to Samsung who directed me to Seagate. Yes, you read that right. Apparently Seagate will pick up warranty support on 12/19/2011 and until then I'm just out of luck.
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19.09.2011
10/10
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Have been using this in a ZyXEL NSA220PLUS 2-Bay Network Attached Storage and Digital Media Library for about 3 weeks now without a hiccup. This box has a small fan but even when the fan is not turned on, drive temps are around 33-35 deg C. Much of the data in that nas box is HD video, 720p and 1080p, and can stream to my BD player without any problems. 5400rpm is not slow for streaming HD video.Will buy another for the #2 slot in the box and would definitely recommend this drive for storing/archiving large files or large amounts of data.
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07.06.2011
10/10
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Grab one before they are discontinued. Samsung drives were bought out by Seagate so this may not be around long. I use WD raptor 300 as my main drive and in random seek and brief bursts it is quicker but when transferring large files I don't see any difference. You get a tremendous amount of storage for a righteous price. My video card has HDMI output which I direct to my Yamaha Aventage 800 home theater receiver. I am now ripping my CD and music dvd collection to this drive so I can have all my music available for quick access. Given the giant real-estate I am storing them in loss less flac format which does not degrade the sound quality like mpeg 3's do. The drive is quiet and in my research has a history of reliability. This will take a while to fill but I am waiting for the next sale and plan to get another.
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22.12.2011
10/10
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Have 9 of these in a RAID 6 array. Great inexepensive RAID drives. Solid, trouble free, and snappy performance. Great drive.
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20.07.2011
2/10
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I bought two of these along with a Synology DS211J. Install went fine, everything worked well for 2 weeks and then bang, one of the drives crashed. The other one seems to be fine at this point but I don't trust it. Good thing I had these in RAID 1 so I didn't lose all my data (AGAIN). I must be cursed with bad luck since I previously owned an Apple Time Capsule that crashed within 18 months (which is apparently common). Anyway, I may have gotten the sole bad apple but just be warned that mine was brand new and crashed within 2 weeks. Make sure your data is backed up somewhere else before you try this one out or better yet try a different brand!
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04.11.2011
10/10
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It works, what more can you ask for? I bought this for an HTPC setup since it's supposed to use less power than some other drives. I've been using Western Digital Green drives, so I figured I'd give this one a shot. So far, so good!
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21.04.2011
10/10
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This is a great low cost/per gig, relatively silent and green power efficient. 100mb/s avg read/write between drives. Used as my data drive. If you haven't, get a SSD as primary, easiest way to up performance. Been using it since Dec with no problem. If your drive was mfg before 2011 then a firmware upgrade is highly recommended to avoid the NCQ bug. google 'samsung f4eg firmware' and it will point to FAQ QI37 with broken english instructions. Still easy to perform.Like every HDD mfgr there will be DOA, hardware failure. I still own a few IBM deskstar and experience the tick of death. Western Digital has been pretty good. Maxtor has it's failures. ALL HARDDRIVES have mechanical components and will/can fail. No exception. It's Rule of thumb to BACKUP! Don't blame the HD but yourself.Backup backup...PS: I didn't purchase my current F4EG through AMAZON. My next drive will most likely come from AMAZON.
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29.06.2011
10/10
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I recently bought 10 of this harddrive to storage my full hd movies.Received all of them very nicely packed from amazon and all of them are working great.Will update this if anything happens in the meantime.This is the best 2Tb hdd at the moment, based on speed and liability. It uses only 3 platters and a lot of reviews states this is the best cost x benefit you can find nowadays.Be aware of drivers with more than 2.2Tb as they need a new type of "bios", called EFI. You can recognize it as it uses a graphical interface. Only with this EFI "bios" you can use hard drives greater than 2.2Tb.
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20.06.2011
10/10
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I have this drive paired with a Macally Hi-Speed eSATA/FireWire/USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure for 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Disk G-S350SUAB2 (Silver) and it works great. It is quiet and I've had no issues since I've had it. Granted it has only been a couple of months but no complaints so far. I use it as storage for pictures, video and Time Machine. I can't speak for the speed but from what I've read the 5400rpm drive should be sufficient with a firewire connection. This is a barebone drive but I didn't need anything since it was paired with the Macally enclosure.Great purchase!
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04.07.2011
10/10
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This drive is superb. I bought this drive to add 2TB more storage to my XBMC HTPC. The drive runs super quiet and cool compared to my 2TB Hitachi HD. This Samsung actually outperforms the 7200 rpm Hitachi drive and runs almost 20 degrees F cooler. (Runs around 90 degrees F!) I love how this drive spins down when automatically when not active too. Perfect to keep my compact HTPC cool. I actually just ordered another one of these drives to replace my Hitachi as well! I will defiantly be buying Samsung drives in the future!!!
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20.07.2011
8/10
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This harddrive does it job as it is ... i only need to set-up it properly with the aligning things, 'coz i still use the old XP machine. Already tried it on a 7 machine, and it seems it still need to be aligned properly ... even that the partition was created by the Windows 7 installation disc (clean-install). Degraded performance is expected without aligning the partition things applied.
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