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Ben Heck's Xbox One Teardown Episode -- Episode 113

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Join Ben as he takes a look inside the Xbox One. As he takes it apart he shares his console hacking insights and starts planning how he's going to make his next great portable Xbox.
  • in reply to benheck

    Yeah, I just installed a Samsung SSD in my work system last month. It's actually painful to go back to my home PC and its 1tb platter disc when you've gotten used to an SSD. My next big upgrade at home is going to be a 512gig Samsung EVO SSD.

     

    The Deskstar/Deathstar is a legendary story in IT. Sadly, sometimes the impression of bad quality sticks around a lot longer than the actual bad quality does. A lesson for anyone in product development and quality control.

  • in reply to kazriko

    That's good to know! I have a lot of friends in IT and thus, heard about "Death Stars" quite a bit.

     

    I have a Samsung SSD in my new home PC, works great!

  • Some outdated information in this episode with regards to hard drives. The "Deathstar" hard drives were a temporary thing, mostly back on the 30-80 gig range of hard drives from IBM, and that was part of what lead to them selling their hard drive division to Hitachi. Hitachi really cleaned the operation up though, and they're now some of the most reliable hard drives made. They're also some of the few remaining quality hard drives where you can enable TLER style RAID support without buying their expensive enterprise drives, making them good for RAID use. I believe they were bought out by Western Digital now though, and they go by HGST.

     

    On the other hand, Samsung makes really good products in many areas, but their spinning platter hard disks are not one of those areas. I have yet to have a samsung hard drive run for more than 2-3 years before it starts silently corrupting data on the hard disk. Samsung told me every time to just low level format it and keep using it, and that it wasn't a problem with the disk, and they wouldn't replace it. An internet hosting company I used had horror stories about the Samsung drives they used to use in their business. I hope their decision to buy Samsung spinning platter drives doesn't bite microsoft on the rump in the future and we end up with another RROD issue because of it, where we'll have to either repeatedly send it in to have the hard drives low-level formatted to get them working again, or just replace the hard drives altogether.

     

    Now if they were Samsung SSDs, those things work really well and I have no issue with them.