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Samsung to release new F3 HDD
DOING WHAT WE DO best, the INQ has managed to get a sneaky peak at a few documents spotted hanging out of a (Samsung?) executive's briefcase.
The careless exec covered up his mistake rather sharpish, but not before INQ spies managed to see something rather interesting.
At the top of one of the documents, we saw an ‘F1' had been crossed out and replaced with an ‘F3'. At first we wondered whether Max Mosely might have cracked his legal whip down on Samsung's back, but we soon came to understand that, in fact, it was Samsung's next price list - due out in July.
So it would appear Samsung will be replacing its wildly popular Spinpoint F1 drives for a new souped up model dubbed F3.
Spinpoint F1, a range of high-end enthusiast targeted hard drives, including a whopping monster with 1TB capacity, has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast user could dream of - 7200RPM spindle speed, an average seek time of 8.9ms, average latency of 4.17ms, a MTBF of 600,000 hours, a SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ interface and onboard cache of 32MB. At 640 grams, it's also light on its feet.
F3 is likely Samsung's brand new 'best of breed' greyhound. And with the recent onslaught of high speed by Samsung's competitors, coupled with announcements about higher capacity and performance SSDs from the likes of Intel, we reckon the F3 drives will have to be priced very aggressively in order to win.
Our guess is that a 1TB version of the new F3 should tip up at around £75 ($95). In other words, for those looking for a cheap(ish) thrill from a particularly large hard drive, you may want to get your hands on an F3 when it shows up on shelves within the next few weeks. µ
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LargeTB HDD,Denser Discs, Half Platters & Realization that Larger Chache Library IS Needed. Wala, 32 Mb Cache. Sams Samish (get It: SAmanish? Microsoft, HQ?) Sams IS Better Perfected Unit From Get go, Presumably.
On SSD Market New Developement Happened Last week. Intels 34 Nm Flash SSD in Two, Weeks, TWO WEEKS....me headcase is opening up) and More. 64 Mb SSD Cache for 64/128 Gb SSD & on Laptop 128 Mb Cache on Small Units, Should ADD More of That Random Spreken Stuff. How Slow Weekend Rests One Mind.
Say MIKE Died, Got Picture of IT Right Here:
http://www.geocities.com/tsvondrashekmd/getattachment.jpg
Look Closely, That Picture was Taken At Night. Ever Wonder What Your Magee (MD) Does At Night? Suffercate Yourselves To Power. 128 Mb Chace IS One Moore Doubling To Bring 'Ole Cranky Under Control
vondrashek
Just a little note on motorsport for you: Formula 3 is an inferior (but prone to more "action" i.e. "racing incidents") series to Formula 1 (or FOTA formula premier or whatever they might call it next year because Mosely can't get his arrogant head out of his backside). Those of us who are petrolheads might just notice that.
You used F1 a little early methinks. You should have started with Formula Palmer Audi or Formula Ford and worked your way up.
By the way, how the chuff are we supposed to mount the HDD with that intake restrictor stuck to the left side?
I didn't know Samsung was influenced by FOTA. Jump ship from the sinking vessel that is F1.
A shame they confused F3 with being a better part. Could have called it as a top for another series. Like LMP1 for Le Mans or something.
As we know, HDD are scheduled to die in 2010-2011.
It will be fast and furious... like the transition from CRT - LCD.
Let the SSD concurrence for lower/fasten begins...
I just don't understand with the SSD name... should it be SSS ? (Solid State Storage), there is no more disk !!??
You could look at it like: SSD = Solid State Drive, not disk. Drive is ambiguous and not locked to mechanic storage.
"At the top of one of the documents, we saw an ‘F1' had been crossed out and replaced with an ‘F3'. At first we wondered whether Max Mosely might have cracked his legal whip down on Samsung's back..."
Classic. If you're referring to Mosley's attempts to turn F1 *into* F3 with his insane regulation changes - even better. Well played!