Samsung Ships Two Kick-Ass Mobile Drives At Once

Sure, we all know that being mobile is fantastic, but not so fantastic is the limited storage space we are left to deal with. Or, if we do have a lot of space, it tends to be slow. Well, Samsung takes care of both of these problems at the same time.

First and foremost, the 2.5-inch 500GB drive is drool-worthy in every regard. Hitachi first released a 500GB offering in early January, but the problem was it’s larger physical size. It was unable to fit in 100% of SATA-capable notebooks out there, an obvious problem. This Samsung drive suffers no such flaw. Though the rated RPM is a somewhat slower 5400, the drive is still top-of-the-class all around. It will cost $299 once available.

If speed is your bag, then Samsung’s own 250GB takes care of you. It not only offers a whack of hard drive space, it does so while still delivering fast 7200RPM speeds and a super-large 16MB cache. Pricing is unavailable… but hopefully they prove reasonable enough to be outfitted in gaming and multi-media notebooks all over. It’s going to be one sweet offering.

The disk also eliminates many of the bottlenecks that affect any notebook drive with an extra-large 16MB cache and a Serial ATA II connection for added headroom during burst transfers. Samsung also implements quiet seeking technology and noise isolation that renders the drive quiet compared to past hard drives.

Source: Electronista