How is this compared to seagate?

Maximupc did review of 400gb samsung drive and they give 8 from scale 1-10, where 9 is maximum kick ass product. According to maximumpc 400gb samsubg is little bit slower than seagate, but price-storage-quality ratio samsung wins, while storage-quality seagate wins. I think people think to much about seagate

For the price, this is a great deal. Does anyone have a suggestion on which enclosure case to get for this drive?

Ugh...I would put it in your computer.

Hey sggrant, I have had some bad experiences with Seagate. So I am sure this will be better haha.

What's the warranty on that? I like Seagate's 5 year.

I would go with Seagate and their 5 yr. warranty over this.

#3 AZiO ENC311SU41 Aluminum 3.5" eSATA + USB 2.0 External Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817106097

seagate warranty is far superior to this, worth the extra 10-20 bux. or wait until christmas when the seagate will go down to 150 again.

#3 I have this case and it does either IDE/SATA harddrives - can do Sata or USB also. https://www.shop4tech.com/item4959.html

what is samsung's usual warrenty, I see nothing on the product page except an add for extended warrenties

Samsung's drive will be much quieter than the Seagate. Samsung carries a 3 year warranty on their drives which is good enough - 5 years is not necessary. Personally I have found that Seagate drives crash a lot.

I've had a seagate drive for a while, actually 3 of them. Never had a crash yet

Does anybody know how much power will you need to connect several of them. Like 7 for exemple. I have a pci ide cards and would like to know if with at 400w powersupply i can run all 7 of them

I'm told to allow for 25 watts for each hard drive but you also have to allow for everything else in your computer. If your 400 watt is a good PS and your sound system is not demanding and you're not burning and you're not browsing and you're not multitasking, you should be OK.

Seriously, you'll know you have problems if you get random reboots, corruption, or blue screen errors.

If you have the money, buy a bigger PS or keep only the drives you need plugged up.

I've done what you're wanting to do (I'm doing it now) but on a 520 watt Stealth PS (don't believe em when they tell you they're silent) and I think I'm pushing the envelope (two burners also with an Audigy) and I sometimes get blue screen errors of every imaginable sort. As soon as I see 600 watt quality PS at a good price, I'm going for it.

BTW, I bought several 80gb Samsungs when CompUSA had a killer sale on them of $10 after rebate ($70) I'm glad I did it because with the extended warranty, I have $80 purchasing power, but the drives surprised me by the reallocated sectors that I already have on two of them with under one year of use.

I think extended warranties on drives is a great idea because the retailer will give you brand new drives or full purchase price on new drive and drives failing (or getting bad sectors, which qualifies for replacement) in under two years seems to be the norm nowadays. So basically, you're simply paying a very reasonable "rent" on your drive space by getting full purchase price on your newer, faster, upgrade. I really don't understand why more guys don't get it.

One guy accused me of fraud! I didn't make the rules for defective exchanges at the retail stores; I just appreciate them.

I used a couple of these in RAID0 for a while.

http://www.valuedisk.com/B12/

price drop too fast!!!