Samsung has announced a new series of HDDs that offer ultra-silent performance and sport high-speed disk performance. This new series simply called SpinPoint S, uses Samsung own Silentseek and NoiseGuard technologies, which have been designed to accelerate operational speeds and reduce the amount of ambient noise the HDDs generate at the same time.
In addition, the new drives also have been equipped with a series of new features and measures that have been designed to improve reliability of data. These include an improved fly-height control technology that ensures better read and write sensitivity by dynamically lowering the fly optimized actuator assembly. Samsung has also provided an upgraded system-on-chip (SoC) controller that provides significant thermal, disk data transfer speed, and power consumption enhancements.
"Samsung is constantly pushing the technology envelope with the introduction of new and innovative products that meet the computing needs of today’s most demanding customers and operating environments," said TJ Lee, vice president of sales & marketing at Samsung Electronics’ Storage System Division. "This latest technology development by Samsung in the new SpinPoint S166 Series makes our high-end, award-winning hard drive products attractive to a wider audience by even further reducing acoustic noise and improving disk data transfer speed."
The S166 Series has a spin speed of 7,200rpm and provides an 8MB buffer. The Series features the SATA 3.0Gbps interface and includes Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drives are also available with a PATA interface. Cost of the product and shipping dates are unknown as of this moment, and will vary according to regional considerations.
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