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Samsung external hard drives
Mark Peters : July 15th 2009 - 22:40 CET
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 New 1.8 inch Samsung hard drives for external storage : Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8” hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Samsung Spinpoint N3U hard drive which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot print, less power consumption and optimized performance, which is ideal for portable external storage devices. The Samsung Spinpoint N3U stores up to 125 Gigabytes per platter for a total 250GB data storage capacity. Initial shipments of the Samsung hard disk drives to OEMs are scheduled from mid-July with a street price of $199.00.
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Samsung external hard drives
Most external hard drives require the addition of a bridge circuit board to convert the hard drive’s PATA interface into a USB interface. Samsung’s N3U drive, however, uses a native USB interface and as such does not require this bridge board. As a native USB interface device, the Samsung Spinpoint N3U hard drive eliminates possible points of failure due to loose cable connections and optimizes performance by eliminating the interrupt service time for the bridge board to convert PATA to USB signals. And the Samsung N3U 1.8” hard drive also consumes about 40% less power than a 2.5” hard drive of an equivalent capacity.
Samsung 1.8” hard drives for external storage
“The new high-capacity 1.8” 250GB drive enhances Samsung’s product offerings and is ideal for consumers who require a small form factor, high capacity data storage,” said Choel-Hee Lee, vice president of marketing Storage System Division, Samsung Electronics. “It is easy to carry around and it is designed to withstand a free fall drop of up to 50 centimeters and be resistant to a maximum shock incident of up to 1500G.” Samsung now ships industry leading areal density levels for all of its hard disk form factor products with up to 1.5 Terabyte for 3.5” drives, 500GB for 2.5” drives and 250GB for 1.8” drives. The Samsung Spinpoint N3U hard drive comes in 120-, 160-, 200- and 250-GB capacities, the disk rotation speed is 3600rpm, and it supports a USB 2.0 interface. The new Hard disks are equipped with an 8MB cache memory. |
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