Product Reviews

Buying a big hard disk doesn't have to be poor value, as Samsung's SpinPoint T133 HD401LJ proves. Costing just 27p per gigabyte, it's excellent value, while its 400GB capacity should be enough space for all your MP3s, videos and pictures.

Its performance is brilliant, too. It blitzed through most of our file-transfer tests. It's one of the fastest SATA disks we've seen when reading and writing large files, and reading small files. It struggled a little when writing small files, though, and was slower than we expected. It's fast enough for most everyday purposes, but the sluggish small files performance is surprising as previous Samsung internal hard disks excelled in this area.

Even so, the SpinPoint is remarkable value and otherwise its performance is faultless. If you want to expand your PC's storage capacity, this is a great hard disk for the job.