Samsung unveiled its new 3.5″ SpinPoint S166 series which are quite with no compromise with speed. At present there are two HDD of these series 80GB and 160GB that will be shipped. It is quite impressive that Samsung has brought the noice to 24 decibels (when idle) to 27.5 decibels (when running)when compared to 28 decibels (idle) to 32 decibels (while seek) without changing the speed at 7200RPM. The SpinPoint S166 series features SATA 3.0Gbps and has 8MB buffer size. Samsung has reduced a 15% noice than usual drives.