Samsung Ships 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive

By Geoff Duncan November 29, 2007

Samsung Ships 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive

Samsung has announced it is shipping its SpinPoint F1 Series HD103UJ 1 terabyte desktop hard drive, a 3.5-inch, three-platter design that offers a 7,200 rpm spindle speed, lower power consumption compared to drives in its class, and quite operation.

“Samsung’s new F1 Series is our ‘racing green’, environmentally friendly drive,” said Samsung Semiconductor’s director of hard drive sales and marketing Andy Higginbotham, in a statement. “Samsung’s engineering prowess and advanced technology know-how has brought to the market a universal storage solution to meet the demands of both computing and consumer electronics today and tomorrow.”

The F1 offers a 2Gb/s SATA interface, optimized electronics, and improved heat dissipation that Samsung claims makes the F! the coolest operating one terabyte drive available. The device uses 6.7 watts in idle mode and an average of 7.2 watts in random seek mode. The F1 also uses Samsung’s SilentSeek technology reduce overall noise; the company says the drive runs at 2.7 Bell (27 decibels) in idle mode, which is well below the level of a typical whisper.

The SpinPoint F1 is available now for a suggested price of $399.

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