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

Tippey764 · 11-06-2008, 09:08 PM

My results with this hard drive on a pentium m 2.0ghz laptop and 2gb of ram

Phil · 11-07-2008, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Tippey764

My results with this hard drive on a pentium m 2.0ghz laptop and 2gb of ram

It'll look a lot better when you kill all the background processes. About 51MB/sec avarage.

Tippey764 · 11-14-2008, 03:46 PM

Im not sure why it isnt getting 51mb/s. The only thing on the computer at the time of the test was windows vista. The computer is noticbly faster when going into sleep mode and hibernate modes. It boots up faster too.

K-TRON · 11-14-2008, 09:03 PM

Your hdtune post shows that the cpu usage was 23% at the time of the benchmark.
That means that their is something running in the background eating at your systems power.
Shut off any background processes through MSCONFIG or taskmanager, and run the benchmark again. That should speed the drive up, and it should get rid of all of the peaks you are getting.

K-TRON

mgomez · 11-24-2008, 10:14 AM

Hello K-tron,
I just read this detailed information and what I am left with is that this is a superior drive. My question is if I can place this drive into my Dell latD600? Is it fairly simple for someone with minimal capability with tech can do? and is the information fairly self-directed?
Thanks
mgomez

K-TRON · 11-24-2008, 11:38 AM

The Dell Latitude D600 uses ATA harddrives, and accepts the latest ATA notebook standard, ATA-7. So yes the Samsung HM160HC will work.
It is a fairly easy process, simply turn the system off, locate the harddrive, and unscrew it.
Than install the new drive, and install the operating system and your good to go.
The D600 does not have any LBA issues, so it will recognize all 160Gb of its capacity.
Its a great drive, mine has held up well so far, and there have been absolutely no problems with it.

K-TRON

mgomez · 11-24-2008, 11:55 AM

Thanks K-tron. Last question, backing up files?
mgomez

discord · 12-04-2008, 04:00 PM

If I buy the bare drive will I get the 3 year warranty?

K-TRON · 12-04-2008, 04:04 PM

Yes you do. The warranty is based off of the sticker on the drive. When a drive is purchased the serial number is marked as "in use", so the warranty starts when you buy the drive. If you are buying the drive from ebay or from another person, the warranty started from when they purchased the drive.

K-TRON

max40watt · 12-15-2008, 12:04 PM

I have a smaller 60GB Hitachi 7k60 and would love to move to a larger internal drive. However, I'd rather not give up the nice access speeds the 7k60 provides. I've looked around for larger 7200rpm IDE drives, but could find nothing other than a 100gb Hitachi, which for the cost, probably wouldn't be worth the upgrade. I've also come across this posting and a few others that mention the WD Scorpio 250GB and the Samsung 160GB as the 'fastest' drives for IDE notebooks. But it seems from this own posting's tests as well as my own HD marks that the Hitachi's are getting 15ms response times compared to the others 17 and 18ms access times while having higher sustained read/write speeds. Certainly the higher read/write speeds are nice for moving large files, but that doesn't happen too terribly often, and when it does, I don't mind waiting a bit longer to move a big file around whereas the access times directly affect boot up times, looking around a files, loading programs, etc. So unless there's something I'm missing it seems that my 7k60 w/ 15ms access times should be about 13% faster in day to day usage with running programs, booting up, looking around at files, etc. I hope I have missed something, that I'm wrong, and can upgrade to the nice larger drives, which is why I'm posting here. Thanks for your time, and any extra clarification on the topic would be great,

Ryan