Samsung HM160HC 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive IDE 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM

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!

I was very pleased with this product. Delivery was very quick and it is exactly as described on the Amazon website - reasonable price too. I've fitted it to my old Acer Travelmate 2200 laptop and its as good as new now - probably better (the original drive was only 80 gb). Its set up to dual boot between Windows and Linux and gives me no problems at all. Very easy to install just connect it up and then start installing your operating system. So I would say if your looking to replace your old laptop's hard drive this would be a good one to consider.

Did some research to replace the hard disk on my old computer. I have no knowledge of hardware so was a bit nervous but as my old drive was a quarter of the size of my ipod, itunes was filling it up fast. I worked out that I needed an IDE 2.5 inch hard drive. This one was well priced for the storage offered. It arrived within a few days. Instructions were a bit limited but it was fairly intuitive how to replace the old drive with this new one. Reloaded the operating system and it was up and running perfectly - computer is now much more responsive (although I think that is also due to clearing out all the crud of applications and stuff that accrues over the years).

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.

I usually run diagnostics on new drives but didn't with this and I'm paying a high price for my laziness. No quibble return to Amazon but it has wasted a LOT of time because I have to go back to square one and reinstall everything on a fresh drive.

Got this for an older laptop who's (slower 4200rpm) 60gb Seagate drive failed after 6-7 years of heavy use. Installed this one and it works fine, its much faster and quieter that's for sure! Only thing is that becuase of the laptop being older it does not support 48bit LBA so the laptop only sees 130GB, checked disk management and no unallocated space shows up. I am not that bothered personally but it is something to watch out for if you are replacing a drive in an older machine. Overall I would recommend this drive if you want a fast IDE laptop hard drive.

Got this to replace a dead HDD in an ageing Compaq Presario laptop - went straight in (after bolting to the carrier !) and after the usual machinations of installing Windows (XP - didn't want to stress the old laptop too much), things have been pain free. Looking for some more memory now, perhaps........

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.

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.

This is a good product to make any upgrade and get more space for a old laptop. Receive on time and in good condition

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.