Comments on: Samsung HM320JI 320GB Clicking

By: angrycustomer

angrycustomer — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:59:24 +0000

In 2009 I purchased a SAMSUNG HM320JI hard drive. It has never worked properly, continually experiencing corrupted FATs, failing to boot every time.
I’m very dissapointed in SAMSUNG’s warranty/return procedure. It seems that I cannot return the drive directly to Samsung and must chase the dealer.
An unreliable drive which Samsung should replace.
In view of the difficulty getting Samsung to honor the warranty I would not recommend Samsung hard drives.

By: Syd Salmon

Syd Salmon — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:58:02 +0000

I’ve been using two of the SAMSUNG HM320JI hard drives for over 18 months. One is my primary drive (MacBook) and the other is on my Firewire backup. It’s made the clicking noise right from the beginning. After checking it out, I decided to stick with it. I still hate the clicking, but I’ve never had any problem with the drives.

After reading the comments here, I’m getting a new drive. No sense in taking unnecessary risks.

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:13 +0000

Similar to all the above… I’ve been hearing nasty clicking for some time with my hm320ji which I bought to replace my tiny old 100gb wd drive in my Asus G1. The clicking is usually trigged by a hdd write operation and is accompanied by some occasional grinding whir/spin-up sound and some slight OS lockups/freezes. It’s becoming more frequent..

I took a backup last week, fortunately, since today the PC refused to boot; my hdd wasn’t even recognised in bios! I tipped the notebook upside down, and tried it again, and by fluke managed to get it to boot! But I’m sure I’m nearing the death of this drive.. so time for one more backup, investigate warranty options (3 years yeah?), and get a new one ASAP!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:05:46 +0000

PLEASE READ THIS! IT MIGHT SAVE ALL OF YOUR DATA!

I came to this forum about 6 months ago when I bought my new hard drive. Like the author, everything was OK except the loud clicking noise. I convinced myself everything was fine – it’s just the heads parking or whatever… but yesterday my harddrive crashed. The click became a grind, my computer froze… and it broke.

Thankfully I had backed everything up, so nothing too important was lost.

But be warned. I had these exact same symptoms and my drive broke 6 months later. BACK UP YOUR DATA AND BUY A NEW HARD DRIVE!

By: pr

pr — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:09:45 +0000

i have the same problem but with samsung hm160hc ata drive… they´re all crap

By: mf powers

mf powers — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:32:41 +0000

looking for an external housing for a Samsung hm320ji — suggentions

By: mark steeves

mark steeves — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:49:29 +0000

Same clicking and crunching in second Samsung hm320ji in Dell xps m1530. As IT Tech I recommend to all customers to replace this hard drive. Can’t count the number of samsung hard drives that have cratered come across my bench. Hear a noise that makes you jump fix it and stop jumping. I’ve done ok using Seagate and W/D. Never never buy Samsung They should of stuck to cheap stereos and getto blasters.

By: Ronan Halpenny

Ronan Halpenny — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:42:10 +0000

Hi guys…

I have had this problem for a long time and only today found what seems to be a solution for it. I have only applied the solution minutes ago so I will have to monitor it for a while and see how it works but from the feedback on the link below it seems to have solved the problem for a lot of people…

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=168425

Post #1 details the solution and there are over 30 pages of replies to the solution. Take some time to read it and see if it might help you.

Regards,

By: Nils

Nils — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:34:34 +0000

My HM320JI has clicked al the time since I bought it(inside of a samsung laptop).
All the time there where no problems, but when I wanted to resume my laptop from sleeping it just hang up.
After booting windows in safemode I started the windows harddisk check. It repaired 3 files, 1 from my antivirus and 2 from windows.
After this windows didn’t boot again so I started the diskrepairing tool on a windows 7 RC 1 dvd. It got my windows to work again, but it seems I have a bad section on my drive now. My laptop freezes rather quickly.

I hope I can get it fix without reformarting the disk, and on top of that I hope I don’t have to change the disk.

By: Sasquatch712

Sasquatch712 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:14:52 +0000

Samsung Drives are a joke! I’ve got this HM320JI…I installed it in my MacBook in Nov 2008. Seemed fine when I first installed it, then about a month or so later, I noticed a random clicking noise. Didn’t think much of it until 4 days ago (4-4-09) when my MacBook stopped booting. I tried using the Mac OS X install DVD to verify/repair the drive but that failed.

When I connected the drive externally to rip the data off, no clicks whatsoever! I went to the Samsung website to get RAM instructions; that referred me to the place I purchased the drive from (DIT Computers) and they referred me BACK to Samsung! What a f*ckin joke! I’m NEVER purchasing anything from Samsung again! Western Digital All the Way!!!