Originally Posted By: mlord
I've got no opinion, one way or the other, on Samsung drives.

I now do have an opinion, on Samsung Spinpoint HD103SJ (1TB) and HD204UI (2TB) drives: their onboard "power mangement" is crap.

Enable it, and the system crawls to a halt, because the drive unloads heads way too quickly, and on some settings the drives just spin down immediately after each command.

At least it can be controlled (with hdparm and similar), unlike with the WD Green drives.

Cheers