SamsungHM160HC 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive IDE 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM

It arrived on schedule and was well packaged, up and running in no time and performing as advertised. Note that it's incompatible with most modern hardware, but it's just the thing for replacing the disk in an early 2000's era laptop that requires this kind of interface.

I am extremely satisfied with this product. I bought it to replace the hard drive in an old Dell Inspiron 1300 I have. The result was amazing, as it gave my ancient laptop a new lease of life! It is fast, quiet and very efficient. My old laptop works like new, I was so pleased with the result.For those of you that need a bit of assistance in proceeding with the installation, ensure, first of all that you back up your existing hard drive. This is what I did: I first inserted my new hard drive into a caddy enclosure and connected the enclosure to my old laptop. With the Acronis application, I moved the contents of the old hard drive onto the new hard drive. Then I took the old hard drive out and inserted into the laptop the new hard drive that had in it the contents of the old hard drive! Simple! The whole operation took me less than 20 minutes and the old laptop is now new and absolutely loving it!Highly recommended, do not hesitate to buy it!

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I bought this hard drive to upgrade an old Dell D400 laptop and I am running Windows XP and Linux on two partitions. The drive makes less noise than the previous one I had and fit in the bay with minimal effort. So far I've had no problems and has been working fine.

My hard drive failed in my 4 year old Samsung Q35. I did some research to determine that my drive is the older PATA/IDE type, rather than the more modern SATA type. (They have different connections, so not compatible)Bought this and its fitting took a couple of minutes. I then applied my Recovery CD, as provided by Samsung and this took me through the formatting & partition options. You may want to investigate separating your drive into more than 1 partition. I did this in the hope of isolating future failures to system or data areas.This drive was delivered promptly, installed easily and works fine!Please note that my Q35 (bought in 2006) has a PATA/IDE hard drive, I understand that later models have SATA drives. So check before ordering. The PATA drives have a long double row of pins.

I have an old Gateway laptop that got a virus on it which was removed by anti-virus software, but in the process some Windows registry keys were deleted and of course Windows XP wouldnt then boot up. There was no simple fix so the laptop was left redundant.Recently decided that perhaps changing the hard drive would solve it, and as these are now cheap and the laptop only had a 40GB one anyway, it was a good thing to do. Removing the old drive had already been done, it was just a case of fixing the new drive into the casing where the old one was. Once secured with the 4 screws it was slotted back into the laptop and secured with outer case screws.Initially I was getting pxe error messages when the computer tried to boot, which suggested the drive wasnt properly seated into the internal connector. On further investigation however it was because the DVD drive wasnt the first in the boot sequence list in the Bios. Once this was changed and the recovery DVD that came with the laptop placed in the DVD drive, the system recovery sequence started. Once finished it was then a case of reinstalling drivers that I obtained from the Gateway website for the system hardware and my old laptop was back to life, now with a much bigger hard drive.In summary a good replacement hard drive for any old compatible laptop.

Bought this to replace a dying 80gb oem drive in an old HP laptop. No problems with installation and it runs win xp pro pretty good. My only reservations are that it is noisy when seeking, and drive does make a lot of clicking noises in general. This is a bit worrying as it can be an indicator of possible drive failure in the near future but I will wait and see. I will update if problems develop.

This is a quiet and fast drive for use in older laptop computers which only support the EIDE (and not SATA) interface.I installed it into my ~6 year-old Vaio when the original Hitachi drive started to fail. This new one is twice the capacity and noticeably faster.The only issue I had was that Windows XP refused to use the UDMA mode of this drive, and no matter how many registry hacks and workarounds I tried it was stuck firmly in PIO mode. I ended up installing a special ALi driver (Google for "vaio ali chipset udma") which resolved the issue in a round-about way.

Acquistato qualche mese fa quando costava sui 60 euro, montato su una workstation portatile HP del 2002 al posto di un seagate 40gb PATA morto dopo 10 anni di uso intenso sul groppone, windows xp professional si avvia il 50% più velocemente e come velocità (internet, mail, documenti) siamo vicini ai portatili di qualche anno fa

J'ai acheté ce disque dur car Samsung est le dernier à faire un DD interne ATA/PATA. J'ai récupéré un Ibook G4 et le changement de disque dur devenait urgent (40 Go seulement). Clonage du 40 Go vers le 160 Go et montage sur le portable. Démarrage impeccable et il est silencieux mais il chauffe quand même: le ventilateur du portable démarre souvent. Pas grave.

Ha tardado un poco Amazon en servirmelo, aunque no ha sido muy traumático ya que era para revivir un antiguo portátil, entiendo que es tecnología obsoleta para la industria, pero aún se usan. Disco IDE silencioso y rápido, es de lo último que se hizo en IDE, lleva un solo plato de 160Gb lo que dá unas cifras de rendimiento, consumo y ruido muy buenos, hay pruebas que lo equiparan en rendimiento a los primeros SATA. Debe ser un disco muy buscado porque este está manufacturado en el 2011, y hablamos de un disco IDE. Ideal para revivir portátiles 'veteranos' que aún pueden dar buen uso y nos permiten hacer consumo responsable. Instalado perfectamente a la primera y de momento dando un servicio impecable.Edito para añadir que el disco me costó 40,31€ el 30 de Septiembre del 2011, un par de meses antes de que realmente me lo sirvieran.

Unser altes Toshiba Notebook mit Win XP startete extrem langsam und die ab Werk verbaute 80 GB Platte von Toshiba rödelte unentwegt. Da half weder Defragmentieren noch sonstige Tools. Nachdem der Arbeitsspeicher schon auf 2 GB maximal ausgebaut war, blieb nur noch die Möglichkeit die Festplatte zu tauschen, oder ein neues Notebook zu kaufen.2"5 IDE Festplatten sind nicht mehr so häufig zu bekommen, daher war ich froh, dieses Modell hier zu einem akzeptablen Preis entdeckt zu haben. Allerdings hieß es im Toshiba Forum dass eventuell nur HDD bis 120 GB unterstützt werden. Dies hat sich jedoch glücklicherweise nicht bewahrheitet, es wird die gesamte zur Verfügung stehende Kapazität erkannt und steht uneingeschränkt zur Verfügung.Zusätzlich habe ich ein USB 2"5 Zoll IDE Gehäuse erstanden, um die neue Festplatte per USB an das Notebook anzuschließen und dann mit Hilfe von Acronis True Image die alte Platte auf die neue zu klonen. Vorher musste ich jedoch fast 24 h lang immer wieder das Windows CHKDSK Programm laufen lassen, da Acronis aufgrund vieler fehlerhafter Sektoren das Klonen abbrach.Tipp: Nicht aufgeben immer wieder starten bis keine Fehlermeldungen mehr von CHDSK kommen, man braucht viel Geduld am besten Nachts durchlaufen lassen. Wenn die Festplatte in Ordnung ist dauert ein Durchlauf mit CHKDSK so 30 min, bei mir bis zu 5h!!! CHKDSK starten mit den Optionen "Dateisystemfehler automatisch korrigieren" und "Fehlerhafte Sektoren suchen/wiederherstellen"Es war also höchste Zeit zu wechseln! Danach hat es keine 30 Minuten gedauert und die alte Platte war auf die Samsung Platte überspielt, eingebaut und lief sofort ohne Probleme. Erfreulicher Nebeneffekt: Wir haben jetzt eine 80 GB große 2"5 USB Festplatte zum Mitnehmen oder als BackUp Speicher.Jetzt startet das Notebook wieder flott und wir haben doppelt so viel Speicherplatz. Die Festplatte ist extrem leise (wie man das von Samsung gewohnt ist) und läuft tadellos. Die Zugriffszeiten sind deutlich besser, Programme starten wieder schneller und wir haben viel Geld gespart, da wir kein neues Notebook kaufen müssen!!!Alle die noch einmal etwas mehr Leistung aus Ihren Notebook herausholen wollen, kann man nur empfehlen sich diese Festplatte anzuschaffen. Der Wechsel ist wirklich unkompliziert und lohnt sich.

Es el disco duro de máxima capacidad interno que admite mi portátil. El producto es tal cual se describe y en las fotos.