Samsung is offering-up a heap of marketing spin along side their
new 3.5-inch SpinPoint S166 series of hard disk drives. This time however,
there's real truth to their ballyhoo. The new series of SATA 3.0Gbps drives
feature a 7,200rpm spin, 8MB buffer, and manage to damp the noise level down to
a mere 24/27.5 decibels at idle/seek. That's damn quiet for traditional desktop
storage spinning at that speed. Watch for the drives to ship worldwide in 80GB
and 160GB capacities sometime this month.
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