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Samsung MP1 - The first 2.5" 7200rpm 200GB drive Designed for industrial use; Shipping in May'2007

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Posted 12 April 2007 - 12:16 AM

It's at least the first officially announced 2.5" 7200rpm 200GB drive now...
And it's the very first 2.5" 7200rpm drive from Samsung at all...

SpinPoint MP1
http://www.samsung.c...0411_0000337581

It's somehow surprising that it is marketed as a drive for industrial use (technology systems, robots, blade servers). Anyway nothing (except the price, probably) limits its use also in personal laptop computers, too. This drive is optimized for speed and reliability, it has vibration sensors and free-fall(drop) sensor.

* 7200rpm
* 16MB and 8MB cache versions
* SATA300
* NCQ
* 80, 120, 160, 200GB
* Availability: May'2007

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Additionally, Samsung announced also

SpinPoint M5
http://www.samsung.c...0411_0000337573

It's another 2.5" drive optimized for Consumer Electronics (CE) use, for audio/video equipment. Just more quiet and more energy-efficient (probably in AAM enabled mode).

* 5400rpm
* 8MB cache
* SATA and ATA versions
* 60...160GB, (250GB will be added a bit later)
* Availability: April'2007(SATA), May'2007(ATA)

This 250GB model sounds interesting but there's hard to understand from the press release text how it is constructed... They say "2 disks" which is probably 2 platters at 125GB each, that's ok, although a new record now. But up to 160GB models, it sounds like they are on 1 platter only or what? But it's pretty unrealistic...

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Posted 12 April 2007 - 01:41 AM

Sounds like Samsung is picking it up lately. That's good to hear. Now I wonder when Seagate will purchase their hard drive division... :P
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Posted 12 April 2007 - 05:31 AM

View Post888, on Apr 12 2007, 01:16 AM, said:

It's somehow surprising that it is marketed as a drive for industrial use (technology systems, robots, blade servers).

I was wondering if they might be using some non-conventional packaging (press release doesn't talk about the height of drive) rather than a standard notebook form-factor. The two "disks" puzzled me too. It may not mean "two platters". In fact, from the second quoted press release, I wonder if a "dual disk platform" might mean some sort of "piggyback drive" arrangement (since they say their 2.5 inch "single disk platform" reaches 160 GB... doubt they mean "single platter" there), or at least a drive that takes up more than one standard 9 mm high drive bay.

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This 250GB model sounds interesting but there's hard to understand from the press release text how it is constructed... They say "2 disks" which is probably 2 platters at 125GB each, that's ok, although a new record now.

My guess: the 160 GB drive is two platters, 9 mm high, and the 250 GB drive will be 3 platters, 12 mm high, but that's pure speculation on my part. We'll need to find out what they mean by "two disk"....

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Posted 12 April 2007 - 03:42 PM

I wonder what the seek times are like. Hopefully more like a desktop drive than like a notebook drive.

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Posted 03 May 2007 - 08:33 AM

I personally think these press releases are just hoax.
Samsung do not make any HDD components by themselves. For example. their heads are purchased from TDK. According to TDK's head business outlook,
http://www.tdk.co.jp...s/2007_3q02.pdf
TDK will not start mass production of 160GB/platter heads until next year. TDK has already started qualification of the head so Samsung might have gotten some sample heads for this recording density and build some sample HDDs using them. But I think no way they can start distributing SpinPoint MP1 and M5 anytime soon.
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