14 DAY TRIAL // When it comes to hard drives, Samsung doesn't have the same reliability among people because of their reputation, "what, they make hard drives too? I thought they were only good at TV-sets". This general belief hasn't changed their minds though, they have tried hard to make people see behind the facade and beyond their "bad reputation". The result of this hard work has materialized into their new series of hard drives, the Samsung SpinPoint MP1.
These drives use the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, which allows for faster transfer data rates and higher capacity storage. In order to achieve the high reliability requirements of the computer industry, the Samsung SpinPoint MP1 hard drives run at 7200rpms, a high speed for 2.5-inch drives, and they are also connected through a Serial ATA 3Gbps interface. The buffer size availability for the models ranges between the 8 and 16MB options.
The highest "maximum-density-per-disk" is currently at the value of 100GB for the 7200rpm class 2.5-inch drives, so the SpinPoint MP1 series of drives is available in 80/120/160/200GB capacities. Another feature Samsung has implemented on the series of hard drives is called Rotary Vibration Controller (RVC), it "prevents the head from leaving the track under severe vibration conditions". Alongside this, they have an optional digital free-fall sensor (FFS) implemented.
The series has been designed by Samsung to fulfill the needs of enterprise applications, such as workstations, RAID servers and blade servers. By using the Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology, the hard drives are able to seek out information ahead of time, allowing the head to move from one read/write location to the other, without having to make unnecessary movements to seek the information required.