Firmware Update for SATA III may need

Actually, there is relatively little to complain on this hard drive. A little too loud it is because Samsung was once before better. Powerful and high data transfer rates are distinguished from the hard drive during operation, no question. For me it was 12 months without a problem. So really can not go wrong with it you, unless we decide, this hard drive in a system with AMD chipset 800'er (890GX, 890FX, etc.) and the associated SB 850 to obstruct.

I have indeed done 939 Opteron system as I have exchanged a brand new AM3 system my betagtes base. As motherboard came with me a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard socket AM3 890GX + SB850 DDR3 memory ATX used with AMD 890 GX chipset, SATA III offers. Now SATA III is actually backward compatible with SATA II. Nevertheless, the new system did not start, the disk gave a clear clacking of himself and refused to work. Only when you manually pocketed the cable during the boot process to let the hard disk to work moving, revealed under Win 7-64 but at no fault. Since the clacking of the hard drive but is now a serious indication of the safe soon entering total failure of the hard drive, I have ordered a new hard disk, mirrored the system and everything went perfectly.

Now I wanted to try to delete the data and send the hard drive to Samsung for repair. In addition I have it connected to my old Socket 939 system and behold no more clacking, at the start everything went perfectly. That made me suspicious and I was once at a Google my problem. Now I indeed was not the only one with this problem. The F3 series has a problem with the new SATA III protocol in conjunction with the AMD chipset. The fault is probably on the part of Samsung, because Samsung has this to a firmware update. This is not as easy to install for the layman and also must be connected III hard drive to another system without SATA.

This has now been annoyed beyond measure. Much unnecessary time, money and brains I have spent and then something like that. Also no mention of Samsung on the website of concise point to the problem, otherwise I'd previously encountered it.

So maybe help the Reszension to save other people a little time and money. However, I assume that the new Samsung F3 are now shipped with patched firmware.

From me, there are times therefore only three stars, a deduction for lack of information on the part of Samsung, and a deduction because the firmware update is then documented yet so complicated and bad.

Another tip for Gigabyte board, there are two gray SATA II connectors, which are powered by a Marvell chip. Here can the board operate fine without firmware update. There should also connect LG Blu Ray / DVD / CD SATA drives because the make zicken when it operates on a SATA III data connection.

Samsung I remained true anyway, the new drive is a Samsung HD204UI 2TB internal hard drive (8.8 cm (3.5 inches), 5400rpm, 8,9ms, 32MB cache, SATA), which runs top without firmware update, however, is as a system disk much too slow, so I now equip Ocz Vertex2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 120GB internal hard drive (6.3cm / 2.5 inch, SATA) SSD for ...