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Samsung unveils 640GB 2.5-inch HDD with shock resistance

Posted By: Bharat BhushanSharma | Sep 11 2009

Samsungs has updated its line of HDDs with the latest 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard drive. The specialty of the hard drive is that it is a 640GB dual platter design, wherein each platter features 320GB space. Not actually made for rugged computers, the hard drive boasts a great shock proof ability i.e shock resistance levels of 400G (2ms) in operation mode and 900G (1ms) in power off mode.

samsung 640gb hdd
samsung 640gb hdd

The Spinpoint M7 offers a rotational speed of 5400rpm, 3.0Gbps SATA interface and 8MB cache in spite of stuffing itself with more data density in one platter, which is 28% more than what Samsung has tried before with 500GB drives. Slated to ship in US and Europe later this month, we hear the M7 hard drive could cost at about $150.

Via: Tech-on