PC Stats has posted a review on the Samsung SV8004H 80GB Hard Drive

The best examples of engineering we've seen from Samsung have been in their LCD display market, where we have generally been impressed with their offerings. Conversely, on the MP3 player front we have seen some varied examples of product, some amazing, and some lack luster.

In any case, we started off with an essentially blank slate of what to expect from this 80GB, two platter 5400RPM ATA-100 IDE hard drive. With an average of 8.9ms seek time, and seven way interleave OTF error correction the specs looked good on paper. The low speed of just 5400RPM sounded bad at the beginning, but after realizing there were only two platters, and that the drive was exceptionally quiet we began to rethink some initial assumptions.

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