A more silent and high-speed hard drive is on its way as Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd announced its SpinPoint line of hard drives. This offering is definitely something better as it has more speed and reliability. Better computing can be looked forward to as the 3.5-inch Samsung Spinpoint s166 drives is integrated with Samsung’s SlientSeek and NoiseGuard that allows for 7,200 RPM with less noise. The two options are available – 80Gb and 160 BG can generate 24dB and 27.5 dB respectively. Some of the enhancements done further to the drives is the new fly-height adjustment technology, optimized actuator assembly and an upgraded controller. This controller provides thermal, transfer speed and power consumption enhancements.

Pricing has not yet been disclosed but it will come with 8MB caches, going with SATA 3.0Gb/sec. (with NCQ support) and PATA versions.