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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27410 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: HD501LJ
• Released on: 2007-10-25
• Dimensions: 10.24" h x 40.16" w x 57.48" l, 1.51 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB
• Display size: 3.5

Manufacturer's Description
Simply powerful, Samsung HDD solutions offer high performance, speed and dependability demanded in today's computing environments. Samsung hard drive provides reliable data storage for any up-to-date mission critical applications on your PC, including video, audio and multimedia data. Samsung HDD solutions represent the value choice for the storage needs of your PC

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Customer Reviews

Dead On Arrival
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!

Unreliable, limited warranty says it all.
Very fast but who cares about a millisecond? Reliability is most important. If you get this drive, expect to use your backups sooner than expected or lose your data!

Mine died after 8 months use. Will not go Samsung for hard disk again. Warranty = 1 year (or is it 18 months?) compared to Seagate's 5 YEARS!

That says it all for me. That and the fact all my old Seagate drives are still working and this one is dead in the water.

For a little extra you can get a faster Seagate 32MB cache which as well as being more reliable is faster to boot (5.9 in Vista).

EDIT: Samsung have a longer warranty than I thought, although still not the 5 years of Seagate. Have just used Samsung's returns company REXO who sent me a replacement in 3 days. Very fast, efficient and easy to do. I have to say I'm a happy camper again, and I'd consider buying Samsung again for some purposes. That said, I'll be making backups a lot more often than before, and not just with Samsung drives, and it will take a lot to beat Seagate's 5 year warranty.

really pleased
My previous pc had started making funny noises from the hard drive so a backed everything up and though I would have a go at replacing the hard drive - bought this from 500GB Samsung from Amazon as it appears to be the top internal hard drive at the moment, turned up next day - installed it and it works a dream - seems much faster than the old standard drive and I now have a massive 500gb and all for under £65 quid - what a touch !!! Buy one and you will not look back