Review of the Samsung HM160HC, World's Fastest ATA/IDE Mobile hard drive

[lee_what2004]

for the WD, I believe it is this, right? WD2500BEVE

[Phil]

That's the one.

[lee_what2004]

is there any chance for their price will drop in few weeks or now is the time to best time to buy?

[Phil]

I think these drives will not go down in price much. They may even go up, just like has been happening some 7200rpm ATA drives.

Have you checked prices on the Samsung too? Maybe you can get a better deal on them.

$92 is the lowest I see on WD. Pretty expensive imo.
https://oyendigital.com/hard-drives/...4-250-IWE.html

While the Samsung is only $58
http://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts...160HC&REFID=FR

[lee_what2004]

looks like I'll stick for WD, samsung one hardly find someone selling on my place
mostly selling Samsung HM160JC

[Phil]

Yeah you don't want that one, it's a lot slower.

[lee_what2004]

thanks for the help!!!

[K-TRON]

i bought my hm160hc from lagoom, and I think they ship internationally, so you should be able to have it shipped anywhere.
Its really a good drive.
The difference in speed between the wd and the samsung is rather small, but the samsung does have the leading edge, with its higher density platter, so I went with it.
If you decide on the WD 250gb drive make sure that your system does not have a LBA error which only allows your system to read 137Gb. If your laptop is older, you may have this problem. The only real way to get around it is to make two 137gb partitions

K-TRON

[plunk10]

Thanks to this thread, I just ordered this HM160HC hard drive from Lagoom.com. $61.17 plus shipping. It will replace my original 4200RPM 40GB drive in an IBM Thinkpad R32

[miro_gt]

lol, this is faster than my SATA 160Gb 7200 rpm HDD