Samsung M3 harddrive. The shittiest cheap HD out there?

[can man]

[IMG]http://s1.euronics.ee/UserFiles/Products/Images/50219_Samsung 1TB 2.5'' USB3.0.jpg[/IMG]

Very stylish. Do not be deceived. Its a plastic box with a plastic Seagate shitdisk inside.

Is it broken? [URL="http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-fix-a-Samsung-external-m3-hard-drive-in-und/"]Here's [/URL]a homemade [sp]SARCASTIC, DONT TRY THIS[/sp] guide to fix it.
Click "View all steps" at the end.

Mine just decided to fuck itself for no reason at all! Thanks Samsung! 1tb of all my shit!

List of things that DOES NOT un-fuckulate it:

- Changing drive letter
- Samsung's own drive manager
- Any windows solutions

Now it's just a stylish letter weight that has a blue light. Fuck Samsung- do not buy this.

Additional info: I'm mad

[woolio1]

Here's your problem: You backed up data in one place, without having another copy on another hard drive.

Data that exists in one place doesn't exist at all. Redundancy is important.

[can man]

A self-breaking harddisk is my problem, though I get what ya mean.

[Digimutant]

The internals of that thing is not any different to my WD Essentials drive. At least I have extra 3.5in drives in hand to put the important stuff onto via an HDD dock.

[birkett]

I've done data recovery on a bunch of these. Most are USB controller faults, others took a little playing with ddrescue and testdisk.

On the older ones, you can pull the drive out, and connect via SATA. Newer ones have the USB controller directly on the drive PCB, making them a bit more difficult.