Photo: Red Hill.
Samsung Spinpoint P120 series
We sold plenty of the two very similar Samsung P120 series drives. As expected, they were reasonable performers, astonishingly quiet, and extraordinarily reliable.
Curiously, both drives were four head designs: the 250GB model squeezing a little more data onto each platter.
| Performance | 1.65 | Reliability | AAA |
| Data rate | 973 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 7200 RPM |
| Seek time | 8.9ms | Buffer | 8MB |
| Platter capacity | 100GB | Interface | ATA-133 or SATA |
| SP2014N (IDE) | 200GB | 4 heads | **** |
| SP2004C (SATA) | 200GB | 4 heads | ** |
| Platter capacity | 125GB | Interface | ATA-133 or SATA |
| SP2514N (IDE) | 250GB | 4 heads | **** |
| SP2504C (SATA) | 250GB | 4 heads | ** |