Samsung’s new hard drives are “smaller than a business card”, spin at 4200 RPM, and can hold 160GB of data. If Joey Lawrence were here, I’m sure he’d take this news with a resounding “whoa!”.
That means you’ll soon be able to purchase 160GB iPods, PMPs, hard drive-based camcorders, and whatever else you can shove a tiny, high-capacity drive into. The new drives will be part of Samsung’s Spinpoint N2 series and, according to Samsung, can “store more than 40,000 MP3 files or 100 HD quality movies.”
I think another cool use for these drives would be DVR storage. Imagine buying a TV set with built-in TiVo!
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But 4200 RPM is painfully slow.
Maybe not so slow, the disk very small, the data is really squished tightly together. The bit rate even at 4200 may not be all that bad.