Electronics giant Samsung has officially taken the wraps off its latest Spinpoint hard disc drive – the F4 – which thanks to its design now contains less moving parts in order to make it more reliable and less noisy compared to previous models.
At a 14 June event to highlight the company’s innovations around 3D and high-definition televisions and other consumer electronics, Samsung announced that it had started shipping the 320GB hard disc to its OEM partners. Samsung did not have an exact price for the Spinpoint F4 or a list of specific OEM partners.
When compared to the Spinpoint F1, the F4 HDD offers 10 percent better read/write performance and lowers the power consumption by 7 percent, according to Samsung. The 3.5-inch Spinpoint F4 also offers 7200rpm speed rotation, along with a SATA (serial ATA) 3.0 Gbps interface and 8MB or 16MB buffer memory.
Samsung is not the only storage maker looking to improve its HDD at a time when the industry is beginning to embrace solid state drives (SSDs). In May, Seagate announced a hybrid spinning disk and SSD device called the Momentus XT, which offers a 500GB capacity in a 2.5-inch design.
The Spinpoint F4 works with both Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Apple’s Mac, as well as workstations and servers.
In addition to the Spinpoint F4, Samsung also released a new external DVD writer called the SE-S084, which measures less than 1-inch thick and is 20 percent smaller than similar DVD writers.
Samsung also launched a Blu-ray disk drive that works with PCs. The SH-B123 has 12X read speed, which is an improvement over Samsung’s last Blu-ray disk, which offered 8X read speeds. The SH-B123 is available starting in July, although Samsung did not release an official price.
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