SAMSUNG Spinpoint 750 GB (HD753LJ)

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SAMSUNG Spinpoint 750 GB (HD753LJ)

I have an Imac 4,1 (early 2006) and just finished replacing the hard drive with a samsung spinpoint 750 GB but I have a problem. Every so often the hard drive seems to be unresponsive for 30-45 seconds, during that time I'm getting the beach ball and then it just continues. I'm not sure if the hard drive actually stops because it's so silent.

I've read about people having similar problems with the 1 TB model of the spinpoint and there seems to be a firmware solution but i can't find it. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7304778&#7304778

Anyone any thoughts?

Cheers,
Karel

Imac 4,1, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 7, 2008 3:52 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 2, 2008 3:58 PM in response to kareldc2

Having the same exact problem. It seems there are no jumper settings that could help with this, I am trying to install Boot Camp and then use the utility provided by Samsung to switch the SATA mode to I as this seems to be the root of the problem. It may be that the Spinpoint HDD simply is not compatible with the motherboard of this iMac revision 😟

Hopefully someone can help, or that my experiment through Boot Camp can access HDD settings and switch the drive to other SATA mode.

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Answer 2

Aug 3, 2008 9:30 AM in response to kareldc2

Ok, tried using the utility provided by Samsung. Ironically the iMac could boot from the disk and access HDD firmware, but iMac doesnt accept any input from usb keyboard when booted from the samsung repair cd (found from: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2bbbs_msgid=126&orderNum=2).

It seems the samsung repaid cd is missing drivers for usb keyboards, and I'm unable to type "run" and press enter to flash the drive.

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Answer 3

Aug 11, 2008 6:36 AM in response to A.J. [finland]

I've just fitted one of these drives in my iMac and I'm having exactly the same problem, especially when the drive is under a load, it ruins my Handbrake rips as it makes them skip slightly. Has anyone managed to resolve it yet?

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Answer 4

Aug 24, 2008 2:44 AM in response to Thomas Robinson

Has anyone found a fix for this yet because this drive is doing my head in now, every couple of minutes it's beachballing for a minute or so, my iMac is pretty much unusable now.

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Answer 5

Aug 24, 2008 1:13 PM in response to Thomas Robinson

Apparently no solution, I changed the HD to a similar model from Seagate and no problems since. Samsung is no-go for this model of iMac.

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Answer 6

Aug 24, 2008 2:38 PM in response to A.J. [finland]

Thanks for the reply. What model Seagate did you get so I can do the same? Does it run fine in SATA II mode aswell?

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