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| Ease of Set Up | 8/10  |
|---|---|
| Value for Money | 7.5/10 |
| Overall rating | 7/10 |
| Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA300 HARD DRIVE 500 GB SATA |  | £51.86Free P&P |
Full review by
kiyawhite
on 11th Jan 2006
User Rating : 8
Respect :
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Good Points: 'NoiseGuard Technology' - very quiet! Made by a good manufacturer.
Bad Points: It is prone to overheating if it is not 99.9% or more ventilated. Slows over time.
General comments: I got the Samsung SV1204H hard drive with my PC, which is an ADVENT 3213 from PC World.
It's features are OK; 120GB capacity (but 112/111GB registerable), and NoiseGuard technology that really works! In fact, I'd never have know that it was there... until it went wrong.
I love to fiddle around on the inside of my PV, which I'd do on a regular basis. However, recently I've taken the cover off my case and all wasn't well. It was worse than a grasping a hot radiator when you touched the hard drive! I then got back on the PC to download a PC monitoring software, which was able to confirm that my hard drive was getting to temperatures of over 200c!
On start-up, I checked my BIOS information, and it told me that the hard drive was already at 150c... AT START-UP!!! To think that the optimum working temperature for a hard drive is 35c-42c (continuous) - I think mine might have just broken that barrier!
I've contacted an engineer who has told me that getting cooling equipment for this hard drive won't help. He said that as soon as it starts overheating, it hasn't got long left!
I now have to get another hard drive. I guess this opens a door of opportunity for me; I can get an even better one!
I'm still going to stick with Samsung, but the hard drive is going to be a lot better. I'll make sure I get a cooling system for the next one, as I don't want the same thing to happen to the next one!
I'll update you on my new hard drive!
kiyawhite's review and ratings | 301 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
WeeBeanie
on 4th Aug 2004
User Rating : 6
Respect :
0
The Samsung SV1204H Hard Drive was bundled with a cheap computer package, so unsurprisingly it is not going to be the best. Providing plenty of disk space (111 Gb to be precise), it is a reliable piece of kit which makes little sound, but offers little in the way of performance, spinning at a measly 5400rpm, slow at today's standards. On benchmarking this, slow reading speeds let it down significantly, causing stuttering and slow loading speeds in new games when loading.
Overall if it was c ...
WeeBeanie's full review | 114 words
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