hard drive history

Photo: Red Hill.

Samsung SpinPoint V6800

Another quiet achiever from Samsung, with nothing much bar keen pricing to distinguish it from the crowd. This, of course, is a virtue in anything other than an out and out high-performance drive.

Indeed, the more Samsungs we used, the more they reminded us of the best entry-level Seagate Medalists of old: plenty fast enough, surprisingly cheap, and ultra reliable. In our book, that made them an almost perfect drive.

Sadly, I don't have one to photograph. We were still a bit cautious with Samsung drives back then so we only sold a modest number of V6800s and, as it happens, none of them ended up in the workshop at the end of their working life. The illustration is a Spinpoint V4300.