• Capacity: 160 GB nominal, 149.05 GB real
• Rotation speed: 7,200 rpm
• Access time: 8.9 ms
• Interface: ATA/133
• Cache: 2 MB (ESMT M12L16161A-5T)
• Controller chip: Marvell 88i6522
• More information: http://www.samsung.com
• Average price in the USA*: USD 90.00

* Researched on http://www.pricewatch.com on the day this review was published.

How We Tested

On our benchmarking we used the following configuration.

Hardware Configuration

• CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
• Motherboard: Chaintech CT-9CJS Zenith (Intel 875P)
• Memory: Two 256 MB PC3200 TwinMOS memory modules in DDR Dual Channel configuration
• VGA: Gigabyte Radeon 9800 Pro
• Video resolution: 800x600x32

Software Configuration

• Windows XP Professional using NTFS file system
• Service Pack 1A
• Direct X 9.0A
• Intel Inf driver version: 5.00.1012
• ATI video driver version: 7.88 (6.14.10.6343)

Benchmarking software used

• DiskSpeed32

We adopted a 3% error margin. So, performance differences below 3% cannot be considered meaningful. In other words, products where the performance difference is below 3% must be considered as having similar performance.