Large Samsung HardDrives?

[William]

I just ordered a 160gb Samsung ATA hard drive, 2mb cache. Anyone have any experience with these?

 

[tw1164]

I remember reading that they were great for replay/tivo machines becuase of low noise and heat.

 

[William]

Ya, I read the same comment about that on the Newegg.com reviews

 

[Broadkipa]

I have had one of those drives since December last year(SAMSUNG SP1604N) 160Gig drive.
Have found the drive to be very quiet and resonable in the speed dept. spins at 7200 with I think a 2Mb cache, good price to, I would certanly buy another when I start to run out of space again.

 

[Chadder007]

I had a post similar to this before....had a few bites..
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1282228&highlight_key=y&keyword1=samsung

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

I have 2 of the 160gig SATA 7200RPM 8mb verison and one 160 gig 7200RPM 8mb PATA and i think they r hardcore.

Uber quiet

they come with a 3 yr warrenty too

~RaNDoM

 

[Corporate Thug]

i have one in an XBOX, no complaints

 

[RalfHutter]

I have an SP1604N that's about a year old and runs fine. It's very quiet and cool. I also have the SP1614N, the 8MB cache version of that drive that's about 9 months old and also runs very cool and quiet and it's pretty fast too. Both drives also have 3 year warranties, which isn't very common these days.