Samsung SpinPoint F3 EcoGreen 2TB Problem

zom247 · 24 Apr 2010 at 08:07

I got 2 of these for my WHS yesterday. I formatted them both ok but only one of them is recognised by WHS. If I put the drive back in my PC I can see it under computer management and it all looks fine. I've even copied data to it and it worked ok, however the drive is not spinning up. Does this mean I have a faulty unit?

I've looked on the samsung site for diagnostic utils but nothing there seems to be for the 2TB models.

jbloggs · 24 Apr 2010 at 12:38

HD203WI Download - I usually had problems with running from CD but found the FDD download worked fine...

zom247 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:14

jbloggs said:
HD203WI Download - I usually had problems with running from CD but found the FDD download worked fine...

Thanks for the link. The cd version works fine. It passed the tests and just running a diagnostic test now. It's been running since 12 o'clock and it's just hit 60%!

AbsenceJam · 26 Apr 2010 at 00:02

zom247 said:
Thanks for the link. The cd version works fine. It passed the tests and just running a diagnostic test now. It's been running since 12 o'clock and it's just hit 60%!

That's rather slow, is it in a USB thing? Directly connected it should take 5-6 hours.

zom247 · 27 Apr 2010 at 10:24

AbsenceJam said:
That's rather slow, is it in a USB thing? Directly connected it should take 5-6 hours.

No it was connected directly to a sata port. It didn't finish until nearly midnight but it came back ok. However, it still isn't recognised by my WHS and it doesn't seem to be spinning up/down which is weird.