
Samsung's 40 GB drive HM040HI operates at 5,400 RPM, comes with an 8 MB cache and uses Serial ATA/150. Thanks to these specifications, its interface benchmark result looks promising. However, the drive's performance is still determined by its mechanical components, and the maximum transfer rate remains at 34 MB/s. In our opinion, picking the 60 GB model HM060JI seems to be the better option, since the price difference is minor.


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Summary
- 160 GB In Your Notebook
- How To Select A Notebook Hard Drive
- Fujitsu MHV2120AH: 120 GB UltraATA
- Fujitsu MHV2120BH: 120 GB SATA
- Fujitsu MHV2160BT: 160 GB SATA
- Samsung HM040HI
- Samsung HM080JI
- Samsung HM100JC
- Seagate Momentus 5400.3
- Toshiba MK1234GAX: 120 GB UtraATA
- Test Setup
- Data Transfer Diagrams, Continued
- Data Transfer Performance
- Interface Performance
- Access Time
- I/O Performance
- I/O Performance, Continued
- PCMark05: Windows XP Startup Performance
- Conclusion: One Momentus 5400.3 To Rule Them All
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