[Newman_SCO]

I'm off to my local pcworld tomorrow to purchase one of these at their website price. (Reserved)

These are known to be extremely quiet.

Does anyone have a Samsung Spinpoint SP2014N (200gig pata)?

How quiet are they? Would you recommend it and how reliable are they?

Oh.. Does it have 4 screw holes underneath the harddrive..do you know, like maxtors?

This will be my first move from a line of maxtors.

Thanks.

[dark_15]

Samsung are the quietest drives I know of. Looking at the specs on Samsung's website (Link) I think it would be a very nice drive. It looks like Samsung has a three year warranty, which is better than several hard drive companies.

As for the screw hole question, I think those are standard on all drives. I know my seagate has them, and I would guess that the Samsung drive would have them as well.

Normally I recommend Seagate to people, but if you can get a good deal on a Samsung, I'd say go for it. It should work well for you!


Hope that helps!

[Newman_SCO]

Thank you for your comments.

I look forward to purchasing the drive.

[Newman_SCO]

The drive is performing excellently.

It is very quick and extremely quiet. I had a look round other forums and some people say it even gets quieter over a short period of time. My psu is now the noisiest item. Samsung has done well. Very pleased.

[K15]

I have heard good things about Samsung. I also like Seagate a lot. I won't buy another Maxtor. I would give a Western D a try though. Last one I used was a 9 year old 1.19GB drive in a Pentium-166 computer