{"id":328,"date":"2009-09-03T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-09-03T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T16:01:01","slug":"my-second-samsung-hd501lj-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/my-second-samsung-hd501lj-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"My Second Samsung HD501LJ Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330\" title=\"Dead Samsung HD501LJ\/D\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG0014A-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"It's dead... again!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG0014A-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG0014A.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s dead... again!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, I received the replacement for a Samsung HD501LJ that I purchased at Future Shop and it has died also. I don&#8217;t know why Samsung chooses to send refurbished drives back to its customers. I&#8217;d rather have a different model of drive. I&#8217;ve never had this problem with other types of drives, and I take care of my drives as far as I know.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bump your drive, don&#8217;t subject it to extreme hot or cold, don&#8217;t handle it without grounding, put it away in a static bag, don&#8217;t put it near magnets, etc. I know this mantra and stick to it, so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not doing anything wrong to the drive.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is I thought this &#8220;tested&#8221; refurb would be solid so I used it as a backup drive. While I have the originals as far as I can recall, I&#8217;m not quite sure I have everything.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>At least Samsung&#8217;s support staff should be commended. They all spoke good English and were polite and helpful. It was the least painful support experience I&#8217;ve ever had. Kudos to Samsung for that.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise they seem to make great products, but this drive is a lemon. Stay away. :C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I received the replacement for a Samsung HD501LJ that I purchased at Future Shop and it has died also. I don&#8217;t know why Samsung chooses to send refurbished drives back to its customers. I&#8217;d rather have a different model of drive. I&#8217;ve never had this problem with other types of drives, and I take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","tag-hadr-drive-failure-samsung-hd501lj-lemon-donotwant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}