Samsung’s new F1 series of 3.5” hard drives is yet
another sign how serious the company takes its increasingly aggressive
move into the mass storage market. The availability of the
firm’s new 1 TB drive trails Hitachi’s 1 TB model
by a few weeks, but Samsung already has hit a storage density that
could make hard drives with a capacity of more than 1.5 TB a reality in
the not too distant future...The 7200 rpm F1 drive uses only three platters, which store 334 GB each, translating into a storage density of about 241 Gb/square inch. In comparison, Hitachi’s 1 TB drive uses five 200 GB platters with a density of 144 Gb/square inch. Seagate recently revealed a single platter 250 GB 3.5” drive with a density of 205 Gb/square inch. While higher storage density and fewer platters typically result in less power consumption of a drive and Samsung noted that its F1 drive is very power efficient, the company did not provide detailed technical specifications of the device.
Samsung said that the 1 TB F1 drive is selling for a suggested retail price of $400.
The company also introduced a Spinpoint 120 GB 1.8” hard drive, which is the form factor that is used in hard drive-based MP3 players such as the video iPod: The device is shipping now and available for $250, the company said.
Source: TgDaily