The drive performs as it should without any hitches. The delivery of the product was very good and to time. What else can you say about a product that once installed does what it says on the tin and goes out of your mind.
IDE drives are getting harder to find. The main use I know for them now are PVRs. I have been lucky to test multiple drives in the PCs I've owned over the years and Samsung's have been the most consistent. Quiet and extremely fast. This Samsung SP2514N is a 250Gb 8Mb cache 7200rpm. Not necessarily the best for a PVR you might say as it creates more heat than drives of 5400rpm. As PVRs don't need the high transfer rates, run HUTIL to make it quiet (this one was already set to quiet) and you'll hardly hear it. Also means it should run slower and create less heat. You can hardly hear it, I only ever hear the occasional clicks which is only when the TV is off and the unit is still on/recording. For use in a Toppy 5800 (which I'm using it for) I made use of a fan and it made it run even cooler. This is a must for Toppy's to prolong their lives but I've always considered a fan for Samsung's just to make sure they last longer. This is an excellent drive and I fully recommend it to others. If I can find another, I'll buy it as a spare.Read full review
I bought this as an addition hard drive for my music production studio but i decided to make it into my master hard drive. It's amazing, it has a really fast seek time, high speed and ofcourse the 250GB that comes with it is worth every penny. If you have a chance to buy this for ~£30 then you defineatly should think about it! Samsung's range of hard drive's are amazing and good value for money. I have never had problems with them and the way this one is performing, i doubt i will have problems with it.
An older model hard drive but still ideal as a replacement in your desktop computer as a backup or standby drive.
I’ve been using the drive for about two weeks it may be second hand but seem to be working fine and speeded up xp edition that I was running
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