I bought one of these from Ebuyers, it arrived and it appears that the drive wasn't spinning. I rang to send it back, "The courier will collect it sometime tomorrow sir and we will let you know after five working days if there is a fault and five working days later will refund you". I waited in the following day - no courier nor the next day, Saturday. Rang Ebuyers - they'd forgotten to book a collection. Collection finally made today, three working days later.

As I was peeved the night I arranged the return, I bought the same drive on Amazon for £25 less, it arrived and was faulty too. I arranged the return, took it to the drop off point and got home to receive an email fro Amazon informing me that my refund was processed and would be confirms imminently. That's customer service Ebuyer.

Is there a faulty batch of these Samsung drives or have I just been spectacularly unlucky?

reviews seem to be hit and miss with a lot of reports of disk failure. Turns out it's a Seagate Hard Disc.

There is no way you're going to have that many drives leaving the factory dead, as I know the test proceedure they go through and that would expose them.

 

Have you checked the connectors and tried othere SATA and power connectors.

It might be a dodgy connector, so worth a check on the board to make sure there are not obvious solder problems (Do NOT try and fix it).

There is no way you're going to have that many drives leaving the factory dead, as I know the test proceedure they go through and that would expose them.

 

Have you checked the connectors and tried othere SATA and power connectors.

It might be a dodgy connector, so worth a check on the board to make sure there are not obvious solder problems (Do NOT try and fix it).

not even in the oven

 

 

not even in the oven

 

Lol - Actually as part of the test process they are baked to varying temperatures

I had one of the so called death stars and never had any issues.

Search online for any type of failure and you'll find more than people who've spent time writing anything positive.

I don't see many Samsung drives that are dead, far more Seagates than any other brand.

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I don't see many Samsung drives that are dead, far more Seagates than any other brand.

which is what's under the hood, a Seagate drive

On my PC all of theUSB ports are working fine using other drives, first drive didn't vibrate when plugged in ( no hard disk activity) second one no power.