Samsung T133 300GB and 400GB

fanless · Post by **fanless** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:49 am

Anyone tried them yet? How about noise and heat?

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDis ... 197917.htm

gitto · Post by **gitto** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:19 am

Oo exciting, especially:

Samsung is already planning the introduction of "Perpendicular Recording” with the T166 series in Q2 2006, containing three platters with a storage density of 166 GB each, enabling to storage 500 GB overall capacity.

CoolGav · Post by **CoolGav** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:56 am

gitto wrote:introducing TMR technology for notebooks

Cool

TMR is excellent, although I somewhat expect the Samsung TMR isn't the same as the TMR I used to work with - Triplicated Modular Redundancy.

Being serious though, I'm glad Samsung seem to be pushing ahead with larger drives. I only have 2 non Samsung drives (Both Seagate) running these days, and 9 Samsung drives.

geogecko · Post by **geogecko** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:42 am

Yeah, I'm interested in these too. I almost pulled the trigger on the SP2504C, until I read about these on Tom's.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/21/ ... 33_series/

I'm MORE interested in a review here, because lately, I haven't really come to trust what Tom has to say about noise in a system. But, they did seem to think it was quiet, at least, the model they had. I'm more interested in the 400GB job, so I can use the 160GB I have in my HTPC for OS, music, and pictures, stuff that will be imaged for backup.

mb2 · Post by **mb2** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:06 am

does anyone else think the poor performance may be because they are using 100GB platters?.. i'd say they certainly aren't using the 133GB platters that would be in the 400gb model, as that requires TMR to achieve a higher (aerial..sp?) density.. and the fact they are slower than the p120's would suggest they aren't the 125GB platters either?

geogecko · Post by **geogecko** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:30 am

mb2 wrote:does anyone else think the poor performance may be because they are using 100GB platters?.. i'd say they certainly aren't using the 133GB platters that would be in the 400gb model, as that requires TMR to achieve a higher (aerial..sp?) density.. and the fact they are slower than the p120's would suggest they aren't the 125GB platters either?

I don't follow what you are talking about. As far as I know, the T133 series aren't even out yet, so how could they already be judged as poor performers?

The T133 series itself tells you that they are using 133GB platters in the 300 and 400GB drives.

What drives are you spacifically talking about, since it seems that you have review information on something?

Sooty · Post by **Sooty** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:11 pm

geogecko wrote:I don't follow what you are talking about. As far as I know, the T133 series aren't even out yet, so how could they already be judged as poor performers?

The T133 series itself tells you that they are using 133GB platters in the 300 and 400GB drives.

What drives are you spacifically talking about, since it seems that you have review information on something?

Are you suffering memory loss, geogecko? ...re. 4th post in this thread

I noticed the 300 has been available at PCWorld (UK) for some time.

andyb · Post by **andyb** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:21 am

The 300GB PATA model is available from Komplett UK right now.

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=313320&cks=PRL

No sign of the 400GB, or SATA models yet.

Andy

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:27 am

Both 300 & 400GB SATA-II are available for purchase in Germany.

T133 300GB SATA-II: http://www.geizhals.at/eu/a170430.html
T133 400GB SATA-II: http://www.geizhals.at/eu/a170435.html

geogecko · Post by **geogecko** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:05 am

Sooty wrote:
geogecko wrote:I don't follow what you are talking about. As far as I know, the T133 series aren't even out yet, so how could they already be judged as poor performers?

The T133 series itself tells you that they are using 133GB platters in the 300 and 400GB drives.

What drives are you spacifically talking about, since it seems that you have review information on something?
Are you suffering memory loss, geogecko? ...re. 4th post in this thread

I noticed the 300 has been available at PCWorld (UK) for some time.

I meant widely available, you'll also notice, that they got the drive before anyone else did.

Poor performance is subjective. Samsung has been known for making exceptionally quiet hard drives, and not everyone needs the blazing Raptor speeds from a hard drive. When you have an HTPC sitting in the living room, I'm more for quiet, than having a blazing fast load time...

Well, thanks for pointing out that they are available in other countries. Should mean we aren't too far off from seeing them a newegg or ZZF. Too bad I just bought two SP2504C's...

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:17 am

Hello,

I have two 300GB IDE Samsung models, and one has a lot of vibration, which causes the 4252 case to hum at times. The other is not causing this in an SLK3800.