Samsung Launches 500GB per Platter Hard Drive Line

Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of digital consumer electronics and IT products, has recently announced the launch of a new lineup of Spinpoint F3 hard disk drives, featuring 500GB platters. The new storage solution has been specifically designed for working environments where high-density hard drives are required for high-end computing applications. The company's new F3 hard drives can provide users with a platter speed of 7200RPM and a high-capacity storage solution of 1TB.

“Our customers require not only additional capacity but also high performance for their server and desktop storage systems, while promoting a green environment,” said Choel-Hee Lee, vice president of marketing, Storage Systems Division, Samsung Electronics. “The massive capacity-per-platter and high-performance features of the new Spinpoint F3 make it an attractive solution for driving the growth of high-density storage.”

According to the Seoul, South Korea-based company, the new Spinpoint F3 hard drive series has been designed to take advantage of the 500GB per platter technology, offering up to 1TB of storage space in a single hard disk solution. This design feature enables Samsung's latest 3.5-inch hard drives to provide users with a more secure environment for their data, delivering a 30 percent increase in performance, compared to three-platter 1TB solutions. In addition, the new drives have been featured with 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 16MB/32MB buffer memory and 7200RPM rotational speed.

As most modern hard drives, the new Spinpoint F3 series has also been featured with a number of technologies, including SilentSeek and NoiseGuard, designed to enable a quiet operating environment for the end-user. As far as pricing and availability goes, the new 1TB drives are scheduled to arrive in August, while the 500GB models are already available worldwide. Pricing is yet to be unveiled.