Samsung SP4002H HDD review
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 11, 2002 at 3:27:48 PM
MBReview reviews a Samsung Hard drive.
Samsung has done a nice job with their SpinPoint P40 line of hard drives. Performance is right up there with IBMs Deskstar 60GXP, sometime pulling ahead and sometimes not. Although the drive did come up slower in most benchmarks, it can be purchased for slightly less than a Deskstar if you search around. The best part about that is, you probably dont have to worry about waking up one morning, pressing the power button and hearing the absolutely horrid screeching that Deskstar owners love to hate, the sound of hard drive death. Samsungs NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies have been implemented very nicely. The SP4002H is an extremely quiet drive, even when placed under load in normal operation and in a RAID 0 array. When placed side to side, the SP4002H is slightly quieter than the 60GXP, a line of drives known for their noise level, or lack thereof. If youre looking for a cheap, reliable, and quiet alternative to your current drive situation, youll want to consider Samsungs SpinPoint P4 line of hard drives. Stick around though, as in a few weeks well be receiving the latest and greatest drive from Samsung, featuring something that I have not yet seen to date from any major manufacturer. What is it? Well, youll have to wait and see. Thanks goes out to Stalin of Samsung USA for supplying me with the units for review, thanks Sta
Samsung has done a nice job with their SpinPoint P40 line of hard drives. Performance is right up there with IBMs Deskstar 60GXP, sometime pulling ahead and sometimes not. Although the drive did come up slower in most benchmarks, it can be purchased for slightly less than a Deskstar if you search around. The best part about that is, you probably dont have to worry about waking up one morning, pressing the power button and hearing the absolutely horrid screeching that Deskstar owners love to hate, the sound of hard drive death. Samsungs NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies have been implemented very nicely. The SP4002H is an extremely quiet drive, even when placed under load in normal operation and in a RAID 0 array. When placed side to side, the SP4002H is slightly quieter than the 60GXP, a line of drives known for their noise level, or lack thereof. If youre looking for a cheap, reliable, and quiet alternative to your current drive situation, youll want to consider Samsungs SpinPoint P4 line of hard drives. Stick around though, as in a few weeks well be receiving the latest and greatest drive from Samsung, featuring something that I have not yet seen to date from any major manufacturer. What is it? Well, youll have to wait and see. Thanks goes out to Stalin of Samsung USA for supplying me with the units for review, thanks Sta