Samsung 250GB HDD HM250JI = PAIN!

Just wanted to post this to try to save others pain with this drive.
I do not recommend this drive with Leopard.
Symptoms:
Spotlight wont index, stuck on estimating time x hours, safari very slow to type in web forms and unstable ... crashing frequently.
I bought a new Samsung HM250JI SATA 250GB hard drive to upgrade my 60gb tiger on my macbook. 1st Drive would not partition with drive utility. RMAed the drive for same. 2nd drive I upgraded the firmware from samsung. Partitioned and ran fine but leopard was VERY slow and Spotlight would not index files (stuck on spinning barber pole of death). Safari crashed constantly. Was fresh install. Only data on drive was Leopard install and updates.
Things that did not work:
-Re-install of Leopard x3
-Repair or drive and permissions
-Erasing and repartitioning drive (multiple times)
-Moving HDD to Private under spotlight
-Terminal sudo mdutil -E (or) sudo rm-r "/.Spotlight-V100"
-One hour on phone with Apple lvl 1 and lvl2 support (thought they nicely tried, best tech support
I have ever used.. thanks apple!)
-Memory refresh (PRAM) with opt-cmd-r-p
-Booting to Safe mode
-Update to Latest patch of leopard 10.5.2
What did work:
-Returned the samsung and bought a Toshiba 250GB MK2546GSX
Dropped the new Toshiba drive in and no problems so far. Strange that a drive would cause those symptoms. Anyway, I know that some have used the samsung with leopard without problem but personally I would avoid the samsung and pick up the Toshiba for only $10 more. I wasted at least 10 hours and $40 of lost shipping, restocking fees on this problem.
I hope this saves someone else 10hrs of pain. So far loving leopard... now.
Hotoru
keywords: leopard install new hard drive crash index indexing remaining estimate estimating

yeah Toshiba has been a long time 2.5 inch hard drive supplier for Mac powerbooks, etc.
sometimes price isn't the deciding factor. reliability should be.

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