Samsung SV4084H
The Samsung drive was the least expensive drive we tested--it was priced at only $279. It's a 40.8GB hard disk and that works out to $6.83 per GB (this was the best price per GB of the drives in the roundup). The Samsung spins at 5400RPMs and has two platters and four surfaces. Each surface can hold up to 10GB and one head services each surface. The Samsung had a seek time of 9.0ms and a buffer size of only 512KB. This significantly affected its performance in the WinBench Business and High End Disk tests. It only managed to score 6160 in Business Disk and below 15,000 in High-End Disk.
The Samsung, however, scored very well in the CPU utilisation test--better than any other IDE drive and even better than the SCSI drive. Its access times weren't too bad either. A score of 14.5 put it up there with the fastest drives.
Company:Westan
Price:AU$$279
Distributor:Westan
Phone:03 9543 7733
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