Samsung HM160HC 160GB Bad reliability?

I was checking New Egg, and to be honest there are alot of complaints about this drive Dying in a few months.

How many here have used this drive for any length of time under alot of use. I would hate to upgrade from the reliable seagate 100gb 7200rpm to this drive only to have failure when I need the laptop most.

 

I'm running 4 or 5 of them, have sold a bunch, some have 2 years or so on them. 0 problems to date.
CAP

 

I try to take most of the feedback on the web with the filter that when things work right, no one thinks about it or gives feedback. But when it goes bad, everyone hears about it. Read from the people who give neg feedback to sellers when the customer ordered the wrong part. Or ones who always complain about ship times from Hong Kong. I love the nasty negs people give over $2.00 items.
I used to work in the internet shipping dept of a very busy Harley dealership. We got constant complaints from some people about the ship times on parts they had to have in less than a week. I'm sorry, but use your head folks, if you need it right away, spend the extra and buy it local!!! A lot of the need it right away parts cost less than $20.00.
There are 3 ways to get something. Fast, Cheap, and Good. You can have any 2 of the 3 you want. People always want all 3. If they don't get them, they whine about poor service and junk merchandise etc..

Rant over
Maybe I need to quit working with the public for a while.

 

I have 3 of these drives. No problems here

 

I have installed about 20 of these drives in Toughbooks in the last 3 years
A cf-28 mk-3 that is on continuously 24/7 Samsung drive is 2 years old and has 0 problems
Samsung's spec Mean time before failure 330,000 hour(s)

I have had no failures on any new hard drive yet ,including other brands and sata drives
Only 4 hard drive failures in Toughbooks in the last few years ( all original equipped )
1- 80gb Hitachi , 3- IBM 6.4gb , 20gb , 30gb


No reports on the forum either on issues with these drives


I looked on newegg under customer reviews and read the reports failures (mostly doa drives) in the first group of 10 feedbacks 2 were bad
To me thats alarming
Btw I looked at your current drive (seagate 100gb 7200rpm) and it was similar -the latest 10 posts had 2 failures

Take the reports with a grain of salt though as others have pointed out here as hard drive failure is not that common

In my opinion your odds are greater to have a touchscreen failure on your mk-4

 

How long on a touchscreen failure on average? My laptop only have 800 hours on it. It was almost new when I bought it a couple years ago.

Thanks for the feedback, I worry as I can afford a HD failure when I need the laptop the most.

 

Most of the hard drive reports were doa , so thats a good time to fail before you have data that could be lost

I started noticing touchcreen failures ( not display problems) about a year ago on models like cf-29 mk,4,5 , cf-18 mk-5 cf-74 mk-1 and just the other day Rob reported failure on his cf-30 mk-1

My original cf-29 mk-1 had no issues bought new and used for 5 years continuously and the person that I sold it to is having no problems with it
Older models like the cf-28 that I have sold many have had no issues either

I have 4 toughbooks right now with non-working touchscreens cf-29 mk4 2 cf74 mk1 and a cf-18 mk-5
The only one that detects touch is the 29 , and I think I might be able to fix it hopefully (the mouse go's to the bottom right when the screen is touched)
that unit has 9500hrs on it , but my 2 cf-74's have less than 5000hrs

I do go through quite a few toughbooks in a year , the most problematic model is for sure the cf-74 mk-1

If I had a request for a cf-29 for a customer that wanted the highest reliability I would use a touchcreen panel from a mk-1 or mk-2 ( using a Mk-4 or mk-5 lcd ) and use the samsung hard drive as from personal experiance I have had no issues from it


Alex

 

Well thats good to know I have about 4000 more hours to go before there may be a problem. lol

I dont really use the touch anyway. I wonder if leaving the touch disabled in the bios would save it from burning out?

Well it looks like I will gave to give the Samsung a try, though I always worry about reliability, thats why I prefer new drives, its the one Moving part in the whole laptop.

Anyone look at the solid state drives?

 

Yes.....Cost way to much .Have you seen what a 160GB cost, almost $400.00 .You would be spending more on the HDD than the computer. I would love to have one but the price needs to come way down before I buy.