The SpinPoint brand carries plenty of kudos, but that doesn’t ensure success – this 500GB drive, for instance, is one of the poorest on show this month.
The 8MB cache can’t compete with the 16MB or 32MB offered elsewhere, and the features – including NoiseGuard, SilentSeek and PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) – are also unremarkable.
So it was no surprise that performance was disappointing. Results of 64.8MB/sec and 61.5MB/sec in our file read and write tests lagged behind all but one disk this month – the Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB – and access times of 14ms and 5ms were average too.
The 500GB SpinPoint doesn’t offer good value for money, either. At 8.8p/GB, it’s relatively expensive compared with most of the other small-capacity disks on test. Samsung’s own 500GB EcoGreen drive, for instance, offers the same capacity and improved performance for £4 less. So if you’re going to buy a 500GB Samsung, don’t make it this one.
Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB |
| Hard disk usable capacity | 465GB |
| Hard disk type | Mechanical |
| Cache size | 8MB |
| Spindle speed | 7,200RPM |
| Seek time (ms) | 14ms |
| Cost per gigabyte | 8.8p |
Noise and power | |
| Idle power consumption | 9W |
Performance tests | |
| HD Tach burst speed | 207.2MB/sec |
| HD Tach random access speed | 14.0ms |
| HD Tach average sequential read speed | 67.7MB/sec |
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