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    Samsung 1TB 9.5mm Hard Drive: Spinpoint M8 HN-M101MBB Thread

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sgogeta4, Mar 9, 2011.

  1. sgogeta4

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    Wow single 1 TB platters. Will Samsung beat Hitachi for the race for 9.5mm 1 TB SATA drives?
     
  3. H.A.L. 9000

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    I'll wait a bit longer for a 1TB mobile drive. I have a storied history with 2.5" drives failing, and on top of that... I don't buy the first offering of anything. I'll wait till the numbers come in, or when I can buy a WD Black 1TB.

    And yes, I know Seagate has been using 1TB 2.5" drives in externals for a while, but there's a difference in those and volume shipping bare SATA II drives.
     
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    Chances are those Seagate externals use a proprietary connector and are 12-point-something millimeters tall, anyway.
     
  5. Tsunade_Hime

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    Well he meant was 1 TB 2.5" platter drives exist. Also my workplace started selling 2.5" 1.5 TB drives...wonder the platter density on those. 3 x 500?
     
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    Even worse, last time I checked, they're 15mm tall.
     
  7. Judicator

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    As I pointed out in this other thread, the M8 is unfortunately only 5400 RPM. It's still nice to finally have a terabyte drive in 9.5mm, though.
     
  8. laststop311

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    I store tons of movies on my hard drives and have been searching for a 1TB drive that isn't 12.7mm high. All I see for 2.5" hard drives in the 1TB space is that pesky 12.7mm height. Is there any dates out there for when this technology will be available?
     
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    I'm really hoping this comes out soon. Will use it as my second drive.
     
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    Ditto, GF wants a larger HD than her 320 for her P-6860FX for movies when she's visiting her parents or family so this will be a welcome HD next to her 7.2k rpm OS HD. It will be welcome for me because when she gets the 1tb I'll drop an SSD in her laptop and voila, best of both worlds :)
     
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    Anyone seen an update on these HD's?
     
  14. sugarkang

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    This might not come out for a while. Samsung and Seagate just signed a huge deal. Who knows what wrenches have been thrown where.
     
  15. Phil

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    The 1 TB platter refers to 3.5" drives.

    The 2.5" 1TB M8 uses two 500GB platters.
     
  16. gandhi2

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    Has WD announced 500GB platters for 2.5"? I've been waiting for the Samsung drive since the last iteration when I switched most of my single platter drives from 250 to 320GB, which was not a big jump. I have 11 Samsung 2.5" drives, the oldest a 40GB SATA drive, all still operational after relatively heavy usage and handling. Hope Seagate won't screw up my perfect run :D
     
  17. Phil

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    I don't think they have announced it, but I'm pretty sure there are some WD5000bevt with 1 500GB platter. There's no other way to explain the very high transfer rates of some of them.
     
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    And to think that back in 1997 the highest capacity you could buy was 6.4GB HDD's using I think it was 1.6GB platters, desktops of course.
     
  19. vinuneuro

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    Can't wait for those reviews for the world's first 9.5mm 1 TB notebook drive..
     
  21. vinuneuro

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    I wish it was a Western Digital, Hitachi or Toshiba/Fujitsu.

    On an entirely separate note, Samsung's HDD website is basically non-existent. They have one 120gb notebook drive on it.
     
  22. Tsunade_Hime

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    WD now owns Hitachi, Seagate owns Samsung so the world's OEM mechanical drives come down to 3 major companies..
     
  23. vinuneuro

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    Seagate and Samsung are still obviously producing competing products and under separate brands. It remains to be seen how Hitachi consumer products are absorbed since their strength is enterprise hard drives and Western Digital is already very strong on the consumer side. Toshiba killed the Fujitsu brand so that's only one down so far, the rest are still kicking.
     
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    all I can say is:

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    Lol, I'm going to hold out for these specs:

    1TB
    7200RPM
    9.5mm height
    average power consumption
    Under $100

    Then you ring me up and I'll buy that sucker!

    Mr. Mysterious
     
  27. vinuneuro

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    It's two 500gb platters.
     
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    Wow you caught that part of my post before I deleted it like 30 seconds later after I read further.
     
  29. vinuneuro

    vinuneuro Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just barely. I was wondering why it wasn't there when I quoted it, thought something was broken. It was there in the cached page when I hit the back button though, so I copied/pasted it in. :D
     
  30. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    i really need a 1tb drive soon cause i'm watching my 500 Gb drive fills way to fast i could not even recover all my files i had on my raid because of the lack of space
     
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    Hopefully this leads to some larger 12.5mm drives.
     
  32. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    I mean it's all about read/write speeds, RPM does play a factor but I've benched some of my Green drives and my Caviar Blue and there was hardly a difference and the Green drives I found run like 5-7C cooler.
     
  34. vinuneuro

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    In an OS drive, it's IO/s and access time that matters. Look to ssd's to understand this, or why WD Scorpio Black drives consistently do very well against average ones like the Hitachi 7K500's of the 7200rpm market. Sequential speeds, while important, are useful by themselves only in data storage drives.
     
  35. newsposter

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    What is the definition of an "OS Drive" (be sure to reference some kind of recognized standard) and does anyone really care?
     
  36. thetoast

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    Nothing is inherently an "OS drive" -- we just use drives as such. And if well-rounded performance is what you seek, then vinuneuro has mentioned some characteristics you would be wise to examine.

     
  37. vinuneuro

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    Your boot drive, the drive that has your OS on it. This is where a dual setup really shines. You have an SSD small enough for your OS and all your programs (avoids wasting money on large capacity ssd's which are majorly expensive) and a large HDD just for storing media, etc. For such a drive just used to store data, performance doesn't matter much. iops/access time etc certainly aren't important; if anything those sequential speeds are what to look for, but priority should be on power consumption and nvh characteristics.
     
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    Spoken like an engineer or car enthusiast! :p
     
  39. vinuneuro

    vinuneuro Notebook Virtuoso

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    guilty of both (engr student) :eek:
     
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    Figured, primarily auto egr's really know what nvh means! I spent a year working for my last company with sole job saving $10M by eliminating waste in the NVH in vehicles while maintaining the same performance. Since this was not my expertise, trust me I was quite unpopular. lol.
     
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    Does this mean 12.5mm 1.5TB is around the corner?
     
  42. Phil

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    I got it in my MBP now
    [​IMG]
     
  43. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What does this drive look like on CDM? How do you find the drive as compared with say the WD Scorpio Black you reviewed?
     
  44. Phil

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    CDM only runs on Windows, not sure if I'll install that.

    Performance feels like a 'fast' 5400rpm drive. It's a long time since I worked with the black so can't really comment on it.
     
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    So available for purchase in Europe or is that a "test" sample?
     
  46. Tsunade_Hime

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    Is it noisy? Do you see a drop or increase in battery life?
     
  47. Phil

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    It's available in Europe. It's totally quiet.

    Battery life, not sure. I'm guessing good.

    I'm happy to send it to US by the way. Price may not be interesting though (89 euro + shipping). Send me a PM if interested.
     
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    Naw, I'll just wait, but thanks.
     
  49. vinuneuro

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    That random write score looks very good for a hdd.
     
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    lol, Philflow. :D
     
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