Samsung Spinpoint F1 RAID Class HE502IJ 500 GB

Purchased 3 units for a RAID5 array. The RAID set will not work. Tried to install Windows Vista Ultimate on single drive. Installation was completed, but cannot boot the next day.

Run Samsung ESTOOL. Two of the drive will not run self diagnostic. The one that did show RAM verify error.

Terrible quality control problem for top of the line business server drive. Very disappointed.

As far as previous review is concerned i would like to add that all the Samsung hard drives come with a three year warranty right from the begining. I am a big fan of samsung hard drive. i had a one that crashed recently but i had it done fine and sold it to a retailer who paid me enough to buy me this new product from samsung. The hard drive has amazing capacity of performing in a fast way. Neverthless it has a whopping space of 500 GB. i thought that it would take much time to read the boot sector. But to my surprise the 7200 RPM worked really well for this hard disk that my Pentium III processor too suports it very well. So anyone willing to change hard ...  Read the complete review