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Samsung Unleash 22X DVD Burner, Smallest 500GB HDD
Posted by Haroon Malik at 2:30 AM on March 10, 2008
Samsung's Spinpoint M6 is the world's first 2.5-inch, 500GB HDD. Standing in at 9.5mm tall, the M6 will easily fit most existing laptop hard drive bays. For those of you worried about sloth like performance, the Spinpoint M6 has a 5400rpm spindle speed, an 8MB cache, as well as a 3.0Gbps SATA interface. A Free-Fall Sensor can be added as an optional extra. Not content with breaking the world record for the HDD with the smallest size / biggest capacity, Samsung are also introducing the industry's fastest DVD burner.
The WriteMaster SH-S223 will offer high speed DVD burning on low speed media; 16X and 8X media will be written to at 22X and 12X write speeds, respectively. The SH-S223 will be able to write at the following maximum speeds; 22X DVD±R recording, 12X DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 12X DVD-R Dual Layer recording, 8X DVD+RW recording and 6X DVD-RW recording. Time wise, 4.7GB of data can be burnt to a DVD±R disc in approximately 4 minutes and 26 seconds. That kind of performance puts even Speedy Gonzalez to shame. All around, it looks like it has been a fantastic record breaking weekend for our chums at Samsung. Well done, chaps. [Gizmag]
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jak0b
Posted 3:20 AM 10/3/08
@ProfWho: Yes i think it will... as far as I remember the tallest HDD that can fit into the PS3 is 9.6mm... so all we need now is that tv-tuner :)
jak0b
ProfWho
Posted 3:20 AM 10/3/08
Will it work in a PS3?
ProfWho
sleepyyazo
Posted 3:20 AM 10/3/08
GOD DAMN!! this is great!! now i can have enough hard drive capacity to store alooootttt of stuufff...
DONT FORGET GUYS THAT TIME CHNAGED TODAY!! ONE LESS HOUR OF SLEEP. i bet everyone forgot!
sleepyyazo
discounteggroll
Posted 4:48 AM 10/3/08
::david spade's voice from Joe Dirt::
"daaaang"
discounteggroll
notatoad
Posted 4:48 AM 10/3/08
you didn't actually write that post, did you? it reads like a cut&paste from a press release
notatoad
mferrari
Posted 4:48 AM 10/3/08
@sleepyyazo: yup i actually did, i hate daylight savings so much. Its completely useless
mferrari
TheSonOfKrypton
Posted 6:12 AM 10/3/08
Macbook Pro?
TheSonOfKrypton
awdark
Posted 6:12 AM 10/3/08
It would be nice if that free fall sensor was built into the drive for the people who have crummy (non business) laptops that think the data consumers have on their drive is worthless compared to the data of business people.
awdark
discounteggroll
Posted 7:41 AM 10/3/08
@awdark:
that line is giving me a headache, and I still haven't fully gotten the jist of it yet.
discounteggroll
jerrt
Posted 9:08 AM 10/3/08
just want it for my ps3. any word on price?
jerrt
westonalan
Posted 10:32 AM 10/3/08
I've been searching for the price on this for a while. This HD was announced back in Jan. I just picked up the spinpoint 320gb at Newegg because i couldn't wait, and for $150, it's not a bad deal. This 500gb spinpoint will fit in a PS3, macbook, macbook pro, etc. The other manufactures cheated on getting to 500 first, they just couldn't make it 9.5mm, which is pointless. I'm guessing it'll be around 250ish, but we'll see. I like samsungs laptop drives, just wish they have 5 year warranty's instead of 3.
westonalan
Joseph
Posted 12:51 AM 11/3/08
@jerrt:
that's from the gizmag site. Now by current, I would assume they mean right now, but I can't find the drive anywehre.
Joseph