Samsung has announced its new SpinPoint F1 series 1 terabyte (TB) hard disk drive. This 3.5-inch harddisk is built of the world’s highest recording density by using only three disks structure, which provides a higher data storage density per platter, resulting in faster data processing speeds when compared with other 1TB drives. The F1 series 1TB uses lower power consumption also, with just an average of 6.7 watts in idle mode and 7.2 watts in random seek mode. It runs at 7,200rpm which are designed for enterprise environments, personal video recorders, desktop PCs and other external storage applications.

The F1 Series drive features a 334GB per-platter capacity, a 7200RPM spindle speed, a 32MB cache, and an MTBF of up to 1.2 million hours. The F1 Series offers high reliability for enterprise requirements and is optimized for RAID applications. It features a SATA 3Gb/s interface with native command queuing (NCQ) and many additional SATA features. Its performance is further enhanced through Samsung?s optimized firmware system, a rotational vibration (RV) sensor for vibration tolerance, and an optimized system-on-chip (SOC) controller that lowers power consumption.

The SpinPoint F1 Series is now available with a $399 MSRP

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