I've had two Samsung Spinpoint SATA drives fail on me in less than a year. Not unrecoverable, but bad enough for me to discontinue using them. Still, Samsung drives do have a good reputation - for reliability, and low noise emissions particularly - and it hasn't put me off buying them again.
I don't trust SATA connectors. They're flimsy and I'm sure they're responsible for the death of many recently produced HDDs.
I don't trust SATA connectors. They're flimsy and I'm sure they're responsible for the death of many recently produced HDDs.