Samsung First to Ship 500GB Drive
Techtree News Staff, Mar 06, 2008 1449 hrs IST
The company seems to have beaten Hitachi to it with its Spinpoint M6 drive.
Samsung and Hitachi had both announced, in the beginning of the year, their planned high-capacity laptop drives. Samsung is now reported to be the first mover.
Incidentally, Hitachi was the first to announce the launch of a 500GB laptop drive, the Travelstar 5K500; the company planned to make it commercially available in February. Earlier at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Asus announced the M70S laptop, with two 500 GB drives from Hitachi. But a look at www.hitachigst.com reveals that the Travelstar 5K500 is not yet available.
Then, just days later, Samsung announced the launch of its Spinpoint M6 500 GB drive. From recently-published reports, it seems Samsung might indeed be the first to ship the drives - in March -- to both PC makers as well as retailers.
The Samsung Spinpoint M6 is a 5400 rpm drive; it'll probably be priced at $299. The drive uses Perpendicular Recording technology, has an 8 MB buffer, and sports a 3 Gbit/sec SATA interface.
Samsung also announced, on February 4, a lower-capacity Spinpoint MP2 with a 250GB, 7200 rpm drive, priced the same as the M6, but with better read and write speeds. It comes with optional free-fall sensors which protect the drive in case of a fall, and an optional chip to protect the drive from vibrations of other components.
USER COMMENTS
Do you think that they will ignore the market for long ?? Considering the 2.5" 320 GB has already been launched, it's only a matter of time.
by Anirudh, New Delhi, on Mar 14, 2008 01:00 AM, Report abuse
i always prefers samsung product for good performance and money value
by santy, mumbai, on Mar 06, 2008 04:54 PM, Report abuse Reply
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What's the use? Samsung is not marketing their drives in India. Waste of time these fellows.
by murali, Chennai, on Mar 06, 2008 05:09 PM, Report abuse Reply