[datestardi]

datestardi, on Jun 10 2007, 04:35 PM, said:

[Did I miss something about platter density??

Yes. Sure did (the caption under the last photo):

"Mr. Kim Yu disclosed, Samsung will in June or July launched by second generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology in a TB hard disk, only need three disks, disc capacity of 333 GB"

[marielaure]

whiic, on Jun 10 2007, 01:29 PM, said:

My guess would be that it is 4-platter drive. Only time will tell... someone has to pop open one to see it for sure. And I don't think that's going to happen for a while.

Let's check this

[imsabbel]

marielaure, on Jun 11 2007, 02:39 AM, said:

whiic, on Jun 10 2007, 01:29 PM, said:

My guess would be that it is 4-platter drive. Only time will tell... someone has to pop open one to see it for sure. And I don't think that's going to happen for a while.

Let's check this

Wow.

That really looks nice.
And btw, the price of those drives should be even lower than the $300 something noted above, as the 220€ already include 19% VAT.

If they bring out those drives the next 2-3 months, they will surely shake-up the HD market quite a bit.

[datestardi]

datestardi, on Jun 8 2007, 09:00 PM, said:

continuum, on Jun 8 2007, 01:17 PM, said:

Question is, how long do these remain vaporware...

A German shop, cyberport.de, indicates for the HD103UJ "Presumably available starting from 14.06.2007" and gives a price of 259,90 Euro:

http://translate.goo...%26as_qdr%3Dall

(In Firefox, the link returns to a T166 page after about 10 seconds of showing the details/specs.)

Now the same link for the HD103UJ says "Presumably available starting from 26.07.2007" and gives a price of 289,90 Euro....

Any news from distributors' databases?

[jpiszcz]

datestardi, on Jun 12 2007, 07:21 AM, said:

datestardi, on Jun 8 2007, 09:00 PM, said:

continuum, on Jun 8 2007, 01:17 PM, said:

Question is, how long do these remain vaporware...

A German shop, cyberport.de, indicates for the HD103UJ "Presumably available starting from 14.06.2007" and gives a price of 259,90 Euro:

http://translate.goo...%26as_qdr%3Dall

(In Firefox, the link returns to a T166 page after about 10 seconds of showing the details/specs.)

Now the same link for the HD103UJ says "Presumably available starting from 26.07.2007" and gives a price of 289,90 Euro....

Any news from distributors' databases?

344GB per platter, I can't wait!

[jpiszcz]

jpiszcz, on Jun 12 2007, 10:30 AM, said:

datestardi, on Jun 12 2007, 07:21 AM, said:

datestardi, on Jun 8 2007, 09:00 PM, said:

continuum, on Jun 8 2007, 01:17 PM, said:

Question is, how long do these remain vaporware...

A German shop, cyberport.de, indicates for the HD103UJ "Presumably available starting from 14.06.2007" and gives a price of 259,90 Euro:

http://translate.goo...%26as_qdr%3Dall

(In Firefox, the link returns to a T166 page after about 10 seconds of showing the details/specs.)

Now the same link for the HD103UJ says "Presumably available starting from 26.07.2007" and gives a price of 289,90 Euro....

Any news from distributors' databases?

344GB per platter, I can't wait!

Correction: 334GB/platter.

[sPECtre]

I'm wondering how far the white paper is from reality, especially seeing these numbers:

Media to/from Buffer (max.) 175 MB/sec

I realize that this is not the STR, but still, the numbers seem high, no?

The info has been posted in French at Matbe.com: http://www.matbe.com...nt-f1/?page=1#1

[Olaf van der Spek]

sPECtre, on Jun 12 2007, 05:10 PM, said:

I'm wondering how far the white paper is from reality, especially seeing these numbers:

Media to/from Buffer (max.) 175 MB/sec

I realize that this is not the STR, but still, the numbers seem high, no?

No, not for 334 mbyte platters.

888, on Jun 11 2007, 01:48 PM, said:

PS! Some signs are indicating Samsung's working on 320GB 2-platter 2.5" mobile-drive too.

Of course, 125 gbyte 2.5" platters are almost out so it's not strange that they're working on 'bigger' platters.

[uhs]

Here are the manufacturers specifications for the new Samsung Spinpoint F1 terabyte disk:
PDF-file
The superior data density translates into a 30% increase in data transfer! The 500 GB Samsung T166 is listed with a media to/from buffer- transfer rate around 135 MB/sec, while the brandnew 1 TB modell is listed with 175 MB/sec.
That means, we can expect real world data rates up to 110-120 MB/sec - just awesome!!!
In addition, there will be twice as much cache (32 MB) and special RAID editions, so this drive is certainly going to be the fastest SATA-drive around.
Regards,
Uwe