Samsung HDD manages 1TB per platter, areal-density enthusiasts rejoice
Solid state drives are the geek storage of choice, what with their quiet nature, blazing fast speed , and stunning good looks . However, the limited capacity and sky-high price of SSDs keeps many of us buying traditional disk-based storage solutions — which is just fine considering Samsung keeps finding ways to fit more bits and bytes on every drive. Last year, Sammy’s EcoGreen F4EG squeezed 2TB onto a 3-platter drive (or 667GB per platter), and now the company’s primed to release a new series of Spinpoint drives with even greater areal density at a time and price that remains TBD. Whenever they do get here, the new HDDs promise to deliver 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM — meaning 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3 Gb/s SATA interface. Knowing all that, only one question remains: could areal-density enthusiasts be the new pixel-density enthusiasts ? Samsung HDD manages 1TB per platter, areal-density enthusiasts rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Solid state drives are the geek storage of choice, what with their quiet nature, blazing fast speed , and stunning good looks . However, the limited capacity and sky-high price of SSDs keeps many of us buying traditional disk-based storage solutions — which is just fine considering Samsung keeps finding ways to fit more bits and bytes on every drive. Last year, Sammy’s EcoGreen F4EG squeezed 2TB onto a 3-platter drive (or 667GB per platter), and now the company’s primed to release a new series of Spinpoint drives with even greater areal density at a time and price that remains TBD. Whenever they do get here, the new HDDs promise to deliver 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM — meaning 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3 Gb/s SATA interface. Knowing all that, only one question remains: could areal-density enthusiasts be the new pixel-density enthusiasts ? Samsung HDD manages 1TB per platter, areal-density enthusiasts rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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