Nordic Hardware has posted a 160GB SATA harddisk roundup
The list of manufacturers represented in the test is almost complete, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. Regretfully we were unable to acquire a corresponding disk from Maxtor. We've tried, for a long time, to get a hold of one from several stores, distributors and even themselves but to no avail, it's out of stock everywhere. On the other hand we managed to get our hands on one of Western Digitals latest performance monsters, the Raptor 74 GB. We'll be testing this one as well together with the other disks as a reference.Read more