Samsung Hard Drives

It's likely that you haven't yet heard of Samsung hard drives. You've probably heard about Samsung LCD screens, or Samsung cell phones, but Samsung is still relatively unknown in the hard drive market.  That's a shame, because Samsung offers high quality hard drives in all the popular configurations.

Samsung is a giant Korean conglomerate.  This simply means that they dabble in many unrelated businesses.  For the past couple of decades, conglomerates have become unpopular in the United States in an effort to make every part of a business as profitable as possible.  Consequently, the United States has two major hard drive companies, Seagate and Western Digital, who are solely dedicated to making hard drives.

Samsung hard drives are made by the Samsung Electronics Company, which by itself would be a major company.  In fact, their sales have recently surpassed that of the Japanese Sony Company.  Within the Electronics Company are several business units and the one that makes the hard drives is the Digital Media Business.  By no means should Samsung hard disk drives be considered the neglected child in this sprawling business giant.  Many white papers and original research come from the Samsung team responsible for creating the hard drives.

One example of Samsung's technological prowess in the hard drive field was seen in their recent entry into the terabyte hard drive market.  While they may have come to the party several months late, their first terabyte hard drive came with a big surprise.  Squeezing 334MB onto a single platter allowed them to build a terabyte drive with only 3 platters.  This confers a huge advantage in terms of reliability, speed, and noise reduction.  Not only that, their hard drive easily bested all of the other terabyte drive entries.  You can find the details in this techreport.com review.

So, will this victory make Samsung hard drives a household name?  It's hard to tell, but it does show the seriousness of their purpose.  Currently, their drives are used in some of the models of major computer manufacturers.  For instance, I've noticed that LaCie uses Samsung drives in some of their external hard drive enclosures.  However, increasingly, Samsung drives are becoming available through the major computer suppliers.

If you are considering a hard drive upgrade, you really ought to give Samsung a try.  I've seen some bad customer reviews for Samsung hard drives that failed soon after purchase, but Western Digital and Seagate also have these problems.  Hard drives are sensitive and delicate mechanical devices and it's not unheard of that a new drive goes bad during the first 100 hours of service.  When upgrading from an older drive, just be prepared and don't erase the data from your old drive too quickly.

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