Samsung Introduced M80 SATA and M80 2.5-Inch Drives

Samsung today announced new M80 SATA, and M80 2.5-inch laptop hard drive series. Both series utilize Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology, an optional free-fall sensors and up to 160GB of storage capacity.

The M80 SATA Series features the 80GB HM080HI, the 120GB HM120II and 160GB HM160JI hard drives. The M80 (PATA) Series includes the 80GB HM080HC, the 120GB HM120IC and the 160GB HM160JC HDDs. The announced hard drives feature an 8MB of onboard data cache and 5,400rpm spindle speed.

The M80 SATA Series and M80 Series are Samsung’s first hard drives based on PMR technology, which is also used by other laptop hard drive manufacturers. PMR technology places the data bits perpendicular to the disc, which reduces the corruption factor. In addition, by placing the data bits standing on end, more data can fit onto a disc, Samsung explains.

The new Samsung’s notebook-use hard drives with free-fall sensors provide 700G of operating shock tolerance (the amount of shock the drive can take before damage), while many notebook hard drives on the market today have an operating shock tolerance up to 325G.

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