SP8004H 80GB-7200RPM Samsung HDD Review
Like most things, Samsung knows that diversity is the spice of life. From monitors
LCD or CRT, to memory and even hard drives, if it has something to do
with computers Samsung is usually close behind. Today we're looking at their 80 GB
7200 RPM Ultra/100 SP8004H hard drive which retails for $180 CDN.
Samsung
like most other hard drive manufacturers has not
jumped on the Ultra/133 bandwagon rather they're going to be focusing
on the new upcoming Serial ATA that's why their SP8004H is not Ultra/133 compliant. Still
it does boast quite an array of impressive specs, the hard drive spins
at 7200 RPM, uses two platters with an areal density of 40GB and has 2MB of cache.
| Samsung SP8004H 80 GB Hard Drive |
 |
 |
- MFG: Samsung
- Model No: SP8004H
- Est Drive Cost: $175 CDN
- Cost/GB: ~$2.19 CDN
| Memory Type |
 | |
| Parameter |
Maxtor D740X-6L |
Samsung SP8004H |
| - Capacity |
80 GB |
80 GB |
| - Areal Density |
40GB/platter |
40GB/platter |
| - Interface |
Ultra ATA/133 |
Ultra ATA/100 |
| - No. of Platters |
2 |
2 |
| - No. of Heads |
4 |
4 |
| - Buffer Size |
2 MB |
2 MB |
| - Rotational Speed |
7200 RPM |
7200 RPM |
| - Acoustic Noise |
3.0 bels |
3.15 bels |
|
|
|
| - Avg. Rotational Latency |
4.2 |
4.17 ns |
| - Internal Data Rate (max) |
N/A |
N/A |
| - Avg. Seek Time (Read) |
8.5 ms |
8.9 ms |
- Avg. Track-to-Track
Seek Time
(Read) |
0.8 ms |
0.8 ms |
| Approx cost/GB: |
$2.25 |
$1.41 |
| EST unit cost: |
$182 USD |
$118 CDN |
We found it quite humorous that a Samsung hard drive would
use memory made by EtronTech instead of their own. We tested the hard drive with
the Epox 8K3A+ which uses the VIA 8233A southbridge that has native support for
Ultra/133, however since our drive is only Ultra/100 compatible everything is
running in Ultra/100 mode (DMA mode 5).
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