Samsung T166 perpendicular?

JugsteR · Post by **JugsteR** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:46 pm

Is the T166 series of drives using perpendicular recording technology?

I have seen it announced several times, for example there is a posting on the samsung homepage.

But I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere, at least not publically.

Anyone knows for sure?

/J

andyb · Post by **andyb** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:50 am

That is an interesting question, I have had a good look round Samsungs website and have not found any info to prove the T166 range is perpendicular, so they are NOT otherwise they would advertise it as a feature.

The 2.5" M80 range ARE.

Andy

waps · Post by **waps** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:28 am

Hello,

It's no proof but they explaning pmr.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDis ... ersion.pdf

The hd160hj is a 1 platter 160 gb drive, so i think thats its a pmr drive.
I have one and its very quiet, and uses very low power.

Maarten

JugsteR · Post by **JugsteR** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:42 am

They do explain Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), and they publically state that the T166 will be a PMR drive when it is announced (their early announcements that is) but the question remains is it?

I'm a silent geek, but I'm also a tech geek, so I want the latest, silent stuff =)

My hunch though is that it isn't a PMR drive, which basically means they changed their minds after they did the announcement. I can't seem to find the original announcement now, but in the article:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDis ... 197917.htm
At the bottom they say that:
[quote]Samsung is already planning the introduction of "Perpendicular Recordingâ€

andyb · Post by **andyb** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:40 am

The linear read/write suggests so, but it is not described on any of their literature as being PMR.

Anyway: does it really matter, its a decent performing very very quiet 3.5" drive that is cheap, cool and reliable.

Andy

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:13 am

Well technically you can't tell from the speed if it's PMR or not. Read speed is only affected by the platter density, not technology used to record data on platter. I got HD321KJ, it's cool, quiet, vibrates less than 2504C and read speeds are 85-87MB/s, personally, I could care less whether it uses PRM or not.