Samsung Spinpoint M8 Puts 1TB Drives On a Diet, Just In Time For Bathing Suit Season
The trouble with high capacity hard drives is that they're about the size and weight of a brick, and just as bad for throwing in glass houses or ultrathin laptops. Samsung is slimming up the beastliest of disks though, with the just announced Spinpoint M8. Inside this 1TB drive are a pair of 500GB storage platters, instead of the three 334MB ones found in most storage solutions of this size. By using AFT, Advanced format technology, Sammy was able to up the storage density and trim its latest Spinpoint to a svelte 9.5mm thick (your average 1TB drive is 12.5mm).
As an added bonus, the increased density also boosts performance and power efficiency since the drives heads need to move less. If you want to slap one in your notebook you can pick one up for $129.
9 comments:
could use that one
great i want a piece! 129$ bucks isnt that expensive too
Man, I remember when hard drives were in the MB range - crazy how storage has grown.
I guess I'll have to turn my other one into a dumbbell.
really could use one of those!
So they are finally slimming down, now we just need them to become cheaper! :P
129 bucks for 1 TB? Good deal!
Make it down.. 2011 is the year 1Tb drives are not enough in desktops...
@ trolske
129 is too much!
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