Samsung ships high capacity 2.5-inch hard disk
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 19, 2007 at 12:15pm
Samsung has announced a high capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the new Spinpoint M6 featuring 320GB of storage capacity. The new Spinpoint M6 HM320JI is a SATA hard drive designed for notebook computers, as well as slim desktops and blade servers.
It can store 91,000 digital images, 100-hours of DVD movies, and 38-hours of HD movies, according to Samsung. The Spinpoint M6 utilizes perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, and the disk drive design has been optimized to allow ultra-precision adjustment of the head parking ramp position for high-density recording, according to Andy Higginbotham, director of hard drive sales and marketing, Samsung.
It features an optional Free-Fall Sensor that protects data from accidental drops and includes an optional Rotary Vibration Controller designed to minimize the influence of external vibration. Samsung’s Spinpoint M6 hard drives operate between 2.6Bel and 2.4Bel in idle mode.
The M6 Series features a 5,400rpm spindle speed, 1.5Gbps SATA interface and 8MB cache memory. It’s currently available with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$249.
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