Notebook Drives At Up To 160 GB Put Under the Microscope

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Samsung HM040HI

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.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.