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Samsung Spinpoint M8 – HDD 1 TB notebook

For those wishing to

get a laptop with a hard disk, not inferior in capacity used in the desktop PC, Samsung Electronics has produced a good proposal. The South Korean company announced a 2.5 “Hard Drive Spinpoint M8, which has a capacity of 1 TB and a thickness of 9.5 mm. This form factor allows Spinpoint M8 in many laptops of various brands. As you know, most of the currently shipping 1 TB drives have a thickness of 12.5 mm.

Unlike most of the solutions with a volume of 1 TB, based on three platters with a capacity of 334 GB Spinpoint M8 drive has two platters 500GB each. Volume cache (buffer) is about 8 MB.

The data used in the storage interface SATA II with 3Gb / s. Spindle speed is 5400 rev / min. The press release stated that the drive supports technology and EcoSeek NoiseGuard, to minimize the noise level.

company said that has already started mass production of Spinpoint M8 1 TB. Estimated price is $ 129 drive.

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