$20 price drop. Newegg has the Samsung Spinpoint M8 HN-M101MBB 2.5" 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal 9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive for $70 with free shipping. Features an average seek time of 12ms, 5.6ms average delay, 145MB/s internal data transfer rate.
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I was going to buy one.... but after analysis of the reviews, 24 of the 36 level 1 ratings for this drive (of 123 reviews) were all in the calendar year of 2012. Also, they were for drives that either died within months, or were unreliable (BSOD, etc).
Got me all hot and bothered for a new drive for my laptop, then left me on the dance floor
I think all the reviews from "N/A" were written by the same person.
#2 - I doubt it. There are "N/A" reviewers even in the level 5 ratings. Also, the level 1 complaints were different and dated widely apart.
I think it more likely that "N/A" is what gets placed in the name field when you don't add one during the write-up.
I'm starting to get the feeling that a very high % of HDD reviews are faked by trolls (guerrilla marketers) working for the competition (WD). Those who can far better track failure rates (OEMs) are not seeing failure rate differences aligned with the reviewers on 'egg/etc, if they were then Seagate would've been out of business instead of posting record profits.
For this reason I won't be buying any WD, I'm tired of the social manipulation angle some companies stoop to these days. Yes a small % of HDDs will fail, but this is true of all makes.
One way around the problem of bad reviews vs good reviews is to include a count of how many units have been sold vs how many have been returned or received bad reviews. Most people who get a good product don't bother to review it. Most who get a bad one rush in to give a negative review.