Comments on: Samsung’s 3.5-inch STORY Station Plus HDD now features eSATA

By: RED.

RED. — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:00:40 +0000

Hello everyone I have got similar problem with Samsung story station. DU010EB/G6 1T (USB 2.0) where when I switch off computer and after run computer Samsung story station do not start. I need to disconnect USB and connect USB. It happening on some computers. On other computers its OK. Computers are from DELL (desktop). Its really problem because I cant disconnect/connect USB I am far away. Its happened to someone ? Thx you for advice

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:39:12 +0000

Hi, I have the same problem with my dell xps and samsung story 2 TB. Can you help me with this problem ? Is there an firmware update for this hdd?

By: Laurentiu

Laurentiu — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:17:29 +0000

The eSATA transfer problem exists and it ain’t the cable or connectors. We run on Dell hardware and we use the eSata cables that came with HDD. I tested two different cables, same result: the computer freezes until you disconnect the HDD. Maybe this happens only on the 1.5TB versions. Samsung should provide a fix for this. We paid the extra money for eSata for nothing.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:30:14 +0000

Follow-up on my earlier posting:

I’ve been using the 1 TB Story Station Plus, mostly via eSATA but also sometimes via USB (on another computer). Both Win XP. It has worked just fine for me. I have transferred hundreds of GB back and forth and have checked most of it with MD5 hash checksums (i.e. have checked every single one of the literally trillions of bytes I have written) and have encountered no problems. I’m fairly happy. Oh, it reports SMART data nicely, so I can see temperature, ECC corrections, etc and except for a slow spin-up time, everything is working quite nicely. (SMART reporting is one of the reasons I wanted the eSATA in the first place.) My experience…

Laurentiu: perhaps check your eSATA connections. One of the cables in the path might be bad or a connection or something else? In my case, I had to cut and bend a SATA connector to fit on my motherboard and it seems that I have gotten away with it…

One odd thing: the case seems to vibrate slightly. It can’t be the drive itself which couldn’t vibrate that much. Perhaps the drive is mounted on some flexible mounts inside the case and these amplify the minor vibration of the drive? Strange. Slightly annoying but I have gotten used to it. Anyone else notice something like this?

By: Laurentiu

Laurentiu — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:26:24 +0000

We have about 10 Samsung Story 1.5TB, and 3 use esata, on different OS’s(XP, 7, Ubuntu). All encounter problems with data transfer via esata, the computer stalls and get unresponsive while transferring and browsing data.
On USB they work properly.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:53:33 +0000

I’m in Israel and couldn’t find it at the leading suppliers – but the local distributor here had it in stock and mine was delivered today. Story Station Plus 1 TB, with USB 2.0 and eSATA. The main reason I got this one instead of the USB 2 is for SMART reporting. I don’t have the eSATA connected yet and I’m not sure yet if the enclosure/cards transfer SMART reporting data. I’m also not sure if the eSATA will give you any faster speed over USB 2; the disk might be the bottleneck. Try asking your local SAMSUNG distributor directly. I don’t know why they are holding back; they have seem to have SOME in stock. NB If anyone knows if this disk supports SMART reporting, please update this board. Thanks.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:38:03 +0000

That’s right Brian. I’ve been looking around here in Belgium and in Holland for two months now. Nowhere available, no pricing, nothing.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:55 +0000

This drive, with eSATA, has been been reported as being available, world wide from November 2009. It is now February 2010, and I have not seen this “PLUS” version of the Samsung Station Story, for Sale, anywhere. Certainly not in the UK