How would you rate Samsung as in computer products?

[Trey]

I'm about to build a new system, and a few of the parts may be Samsung.

What is the quality of thier CD-ROM drives, CD-RWs, and HDs?

[Jonty]

Don't know about their computer products, but 18 months ago bought one of their VCR's and it lasted 6 weeks and died. I got my money back from the store and bought an Aiwa, its been an excellent machine.

Sorry I can't be more helpful on this.

[Ultima]

Well,

we use samsung dvd players in the production, and altho we did have a few models of which the lasers would go outta line pretty quickly, most of them have been excellent dvd players.

Ultima

[kfaulkne]

Its been a few years since I have bought samsung hd, but let me tell you, I had so many bad drives ( maybe 8 outa 10) that it would take a lot of convincing for me to touch them again.

[darkmallard]

Samsung is just fine. I have a 40X Samsung CD-ROM that has been working nice and quiet for 2 years along with a Samsung floppy drive. With CD-ROM drives, it really doesn't matter. You're likelyhood to get a bad one is just as probable compared with another brand name. Just get them from a good retailer, so there are no problems taking it back if it is bad. If it is pretty quiet opening, closing, and accessing, minus the obvious high-velocity spinning sound, it should be OK. It's pretty much the same with hard drives.

[This message has been edited by darkmallard (edited 02-06-2001).]

[psyklone]

well i've had a few samsung 4.3gig drives for about 4 years and i never had problems with any of them.

[CMonster]

I would recommend against Samsung hard disks -I built 4 systems with the 4.3GB drives and 2 of them went belly-up in the first year. 50% failure rate is unacceptable.

[darkmallard]

I just checked my hard drives last night and my 4.3G drive is a Samsung also. Still running great since '99.

[[Neo770]]

I have to 8.4 gig samsung drives in RAID 0. They are not the fastest HDD around and one of them has a bad sector. But they are ok for what I need. I have them because they where cheap. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[NDC]

I use FDD, RAM, and a couple of old HDD's from Samsung and I have no complaints.



[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 02-07-2001).]

[RayH]

I don't know that I would go out of the way to buy Samsung! But my PCS works just fine.

[NDC]

As for all their other computer hardware, they don't have a name....but Samsung is one of the World's leading company in Memory and LCD screens. Their LCD screens are rated grade A.