This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen a 500GB platter, but it sure is great to see some more hard drives adopting a faster way to access data. By reducing the amount of platters there is less work required in moving a head to the data. This advantage can give up to 30% greater performance over a 3-platter hard drive, which is good news for performance buffs.
Anyway, Samsung debuted their latest 1TB Spinpoint F3 HDD that utilises two 500GB platters as mentioned above, as well as a 500GB edition. The hard drives use the standard 3.5″ form factor, spin at a normal 7,200 RPM and have 16 or 32 MB buffer cache. According to Samsung, the 500GB model is available now with the 1TB version slated for a release next month.
