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Samsung HD501LJ 500GB Internal SATA 16MB 7200RPM Hard Drive
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB Internal SATA 16MB 7200RPM Hard Drive

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Brand: Samsung
Category: CE

Buy New: £43.95



New (4) from £43.95

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 11 reviews
Sales Rank: 15802

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 57.5 x 40.2 x 10.2

MPN: HD501LJ
Model: HD501LJ
UPC: 802700500619
EAN: 9056458985100
ASIN: B000MSRAEY

Release Date: October 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / CapacityGB500Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Average Seek Timems8.9Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Data Transfer RateMBps300Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Spindle Speedrpm7200Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Buffer SizeMB16Technical DataStorage Controller / TypeNoneTechnical DataDimensions & Weight / Widthcm10.2Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Depthcm14.6Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Heightcm2.5Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Weightkg0.64Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Interface TypeSerial ATA-300Technical DataStorage / TypeHard driveTechnical DataStorage Controller (2nd) / TypeNoneTechnical DataStorage Hard Drive / Form Factor3.5" x 1/3HTechnical DataHeader / Product LineSamsung SpinPoint T166Technical DataHeader / ModelHD501LJTechnical DataHeader / CompatibilityPCTechnical DataHeader / ManufacturerSamsungTechnical DataHeader / Packaged Quantity1Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Hard Drive TypeInternal hard drive


Customer Reviews:   Read 6 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars Died After 5 Months   August 31, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Worked great for almost 5 months, fast, almost silent. Then right in the middle of transferring a large video file... the dreaded click, click, click. And that was it... all my data gone! Luckily I hadn't got round to wiping the source drives. So I only lost a minimal amount of data, but that was just down to pure luck.

Amazon has offered a me credit to buy a new drive, but I'm not sure if I'm going to accept this, as I've already bought a Western Digital replacement.

Maybe I was just unlucky, but I definitely won't be buying another Samsung hard drive anytime soon. I'll be sticking with one the established drive manufactures in future I.e. Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor etc...



1 out of 5 stars Click, Click Bang goes my data   June 18, 2008
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Lasted 5 days, then a cyclic redundancy error. I did a windows disk check (which took about 5 hours) then returned to find the machine hung at the bios stage with the drive emitting the dreaded mechanical click, click, click sound. Totally dead from that point. Luckily most of what was on the drive was backed up elsewhere, just lost about 100 photos and a few hours of my time. I had a bad feeling about it and wanted to give it a few weeks before I committed to important data. I'm going back to Western Digital (2 drives still going strong after 4 and 6 years). Samsung should go back to making fridges/TVs (and the million other types of product they make) - leave this specialist field to specialist companies.

Be Warned If You Value Your Data!



1 out of 5 stars RUBISH   June 11, 2008
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

I Should of taken notice of the reviews,, NAUGHTY ME.
LASTED 2 MINUTES.. CLICK.. CLICK.. CLICK



1 out of 5 stars Dead On Arrival   May 12, 2008
 9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I should have listened to the other reviewers here!! I will not buy fragile PC equipment through Amazon again! The drive arrived in a box big enough to carry 10 hard drives and when I felt the contents sliding around inside my heart sank. Sure enough after opening the box the drive sat inside with just a jiffy bag for protection. This equates to putting an egg in a biscuit tin and posting it through the mail and expecting The Royal Mail to treat it is if it were an unexploded bomb - i.e.
not a chance in hell!! So with much trepidation I attached the drive and started copying my small 36Gb drive over to the new drive - CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! - reboot - XP needs to do a consistency check - corrupt indexes - orphaned files - indexes being recreated - basically 1 stuffed hard drive.
This was my second spinpoint and I only bought from Amazon to save a few pounds - lesson learnt, buy from the shops that deal with hardware properly. Needless to say the drive is on it's way back and compensation is being sought!



1 out of 5 stars Terrible packaging by Amazon   May 1, 2008
 7 out of 9 found this review helpful

Got the drive this moring from the postman - not a courier. Not a good start! The drive had come packed in a cardboard folder, with no bubblewrap or peanuts and which wasn't even selotaped at the ends, thus the hard drive had slipped out of the folder and was sitting in the bottom of the postmans bag...I almost refused delivery there and then!

But I duly connected it to my computer to check it and it instantly began wurring, almost moaning...there's no way I'd allow my precious data to be kept on this drive. Its a disaster waiting to happen! Sent back that day!!

Amazon - how can you ship fragile OEM hard drives in basic cardboard folders?? Everyone else ships them by courier in properly secure and padded boxes. I can't believe I paid 5 shipping for a cardboard folder, which wasn't even selotaped at the ends!!!

Shame on you Amazon - I'll never buy electronics from here again!




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