[Phippster]

My 500GB Western Digital USB 2.0 HDD worked OK for a few weeks on my Samsung UE40ES6800 but recently a 'Device needs repair' type message pops up now and again. When I try to run Repair device I'm informed that the repair was unsuccessful and that I need to reformat. Anyone else experienced this type of problem on Samsung Smart TVs?

[evil c]

Not me. My Hitachi 320GB drive has worked without errors since July 2011 on the D6530.

[Phippster]

There are a few of us who have seen this problem and, of course, the suggestion made by the Samsung representative was that my HDD must be at fault.

However, after a brief investigation it became evident that the TV's HDD management software is at fault: In a nutshell, the TV's software can corrupt the HDD's XFS file structure (apparently randomly).

On my PC running Ubuntu, the HDD is seen as 'unmountable'. However, after carrying out an xfs_repair the HDD becomes accessible in Ubuntu and works perfectly fine again on the Samsung TV.

See here for more info.

[Galaxy]

Yes I am now on my second Samsung 500gb M3 hard drive after the first one failed after about 5 weeks, the new drive had an indicated problem after the first week and I had to "repair it" while connected to the TV and reformat thus loosing several programmes, it has been running now for three days......

Not very happy especially as I thought I will use a Samsung hard drive as its a Samsung TV and forego any compatability problems, if only!

[tealady]

Yes, had the same sort of issue (refused to recognise device or format it). Had to format it in W7, then reformat on the tv to get it to work again.