Posted on Tuesday, March 08 2011 @ 22:49 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Samsung revealed at CeBIT to German magazine Heise that it has developed the first 1TB platters. These new platters will enable the company to create HDDs with a storage capacity of up to 4TB.
Currently, companies can only produce 3TB 3.5-inch hard drives, with each platter at 750MB. The breakthrough also applies to notebooks, as Samsung showed off a 2.5-inch, two-platter, 1TB drive that is compatible with most average notebooks thanks to its standard height.
When the 4TB HDDs will begin shipping wasn't revealed, but when they do, they will be part of the company's Spinpoint EcoGreen series. As such, they will have 5,400RPM rotational speeds, have 32MB of cache and a SATA 6Gbps interface. Samsung added that the technology would also allow for 10TB drives with some more modification, though this wouldn't happen for a while yet.
Source: Electronista
