Product reviewsSamsung M5 160GB,Internal,5400 RPM,6.35 cm (2.5") (HM160HC) Desktop HDD

Exceptional product! and performs great for the money

I purchased this product as a replacement for the damaged 40GB IDE hardisk that came with my laptop and is a cost effective solution to upgrading your current hardisk for a higher capacity to store extra MP3's and Videos ect without having to purchase an external drive freeing up the already limited USB ports on my older laptop. What I like about this product is that the drive consistantly performs well and has a fairly rapid data tranfer rate for an IDE drive compared with other drives of this type.Read full review...

Superb performance so far very good.

Although having bought a Samsung 3.5" 250GB IDE HDD that failed early in life, I still trust the brand as generally very reliable.
Using Linux and making an error during installation, had to erase & re-install, however after updating second os, grub screen locked os on restart so had to do grub recovery. I have no idea if this is the drive not fully erasing. Since then performance can only be described as excellent, fast & precise. As early days and for above experiences reserve one star for value, only time will probably prove this unfair.Read full review...

Excellent 160GB IDE Hard Drive

With IDE interface drives becoming rarer and rarer, it was very valuable to obtain this drive and increase the storage capacity of my old laptop which I am rebuilding to give to my daughter.
The drive installed easily and the Win 7 os was loaded without problem. In operation, the drive is fast and quiet; what more do you want?

Reliability will only be answered with time but as this isn't the first Samsung Spinpoint I have experience of, I can't see this being a problemRead full review...

Ideal to renew an old laptop!

This is a PATA/IDE interface 2.5" HDD, great quality and perfect to renew that old laptop that's been sitting around without being used.

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Quality product for the price!

I bought this Samsung 160GB hard drive to replace the faulty and slower 20GB from my Acer Travelmate laptop, and it's much faster. As well as the greater storage capacity, it has shown to be reliable so far. If you are looking to upgrade or to replace your hard drive, the Samsung is great value for money!Read full review...

Restored older laptop to a new life

Bought this to upgrade my 60Gb 4200rpm HD in a Fujitsu Amilo L7300 also fitted a faster CPU and a little more memory but the new hard drive made the biggest improvement by far(4200rpm old drive, 5400rpm this drive).
Now running XP and WIN7 home Premium, 7 seems faster than XP
It gave my old laptop a new lease of lifeRead full review...

Ideal replacement drive for that older notebook

I purchased this drive to replace the 40GB drive in my 5 year old Dell Inspiron 1300 as it was at full capacity. The Dell Inspiron only supports drives to a maximum of 137GB so I thought it was worth a try. The Dell still has plenty of life left in it and it running Windows 7 very nicely with 2GB Ram. The install was straight forward - replaced the drive, put the original 40GB drive in a USB enclosure and cloned it with the new drive. The Samsung drive is quieter, faster and reports a formatted capacity of 149GB. Overall, I recommend this drive upgrading notebook/laptop drives which use the older IDE interface.Read full review...

Very Quiet Drive

This Hard Drive is extremely quiet, once fitted to my laptop I cannot hear it at all. I installed Windows 7 Prof with no difficulty what so ever. Its just a pity they don't make a bigger drive otherwise Fantastic......Read full review...

Very good for is money

Very good for is money

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OK so far

Works fine; haven't had it long enough to assess reliability

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