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Hardware
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Written by Samuknow
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 08:26 |
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Page 1 of 6 The Samsung SpinPoint P Series drives offer capacities ranging from 40 GB ultra-thin formats to 250GB desktop formats. In all cases, they emphasize good performance figures while maintaining low operating noise. 
With the growing demands for storage in a computer, it came time to add another drive in my setup. I was already running a WD Raptor for my OS and games, and I had a couple of slower PATA drives for added space after the death of my Maxtor 80GB a while back. My Raptor has been and still is serving me well, so I figured another SATA was in order. I was not expecting the same performance on a 7200-RPM drive as I got from my10000-RPM drive, but my hopes were high. After a little research and a lot of help from the great members of AOA, I decided on a Samsung Spinpoint 160 GB drive. I ordered the drive from Newegg.com for the low price of $59.99 Shipped. As always Newegg got it to me fast. Let’s take a look. The specs: - Formatted Capacity : 160.0 GB
- Native Serial ATA (3.0Gbps) with Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle Motor Technology
- High Speed Dual Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Based Architecture
- ATA SMART Compliant
- ATA Security Mode Feature Set
- ATA Host Protected Area Feature Set
- ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature Set
- ATA 48-bit Address Feature Set
- ATA Streaming Feature Set
- ATA Power Up In Standby Feature Set
- ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature Set
- Permuted RLL/ECC On-The-Fly Error Correction
- RoHS-compliant
- NoiseGuard™
- SilentSeek™
- Hot-Plug & Hot-Swap capable
The drive arrived in a plain brown box wrapped very securely. It came with a SATA power cable adapter. This is not something I expected. Many SATA drives still have accommodations for both 4-pin molex and SATA power connections. The Samsung drive only supports SATA power. No problem for those of you with newer power supplies that have SATA support.
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