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Never one to rest on its laurels, Samsung Electronics has introduced four new 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) specifically designed for intensive laptop and enterprise computing applications.

The latest addition to the company’s SpinPoint family of hard drives includes the M60 SATA Series featuring the 100GB HM100JI ($170), 120GB HM120JI ($200) and the M60 Series featuring the 100GB HM100JC ($150) and 120GB HM120JC ($180).

The M60 SATA Series hard drives are pitched as perfect for enterprise applications such as blade servers that require small form factors with the benefits of Serial ATA technology. The M60 SATA Series allows for an unlimited number of hard drives with a system. The M60 SATA Series is also ideal for ‘daisy chaining’ of drives via slim cables, allowing you to store virtually unlimited amount of data by simply adding additional drives to your system.

Ideal for corporate or mobile computing needs, the M60 Series and M60 SATA Series feature 8MB of onboard data cache and 5400rpm spindle speed. The new series of hard drives also provide shock protection capability through an advanced mechanical platform and able-bodied cover design engineered to minimise the intensity of external shock transmitted to the most critical components of the drive.

The M60 Series and M60 SATA Series hard drives are equipped with Samsung’s Hybrid Latch System, a new latch mechanism that eliminates unpleasant rattling noises and significantly reduces the clicking noise generated when a drive moves its heads on and off the disk according to the operating modes. The drive uses a Fluid Dynamic Bearing motor to achieve an industry-leading operating acoustic noise levels.

Each of the new M60 SATA Series and M60 Series Parallel ATA hard drives feature 60GB formatted capacity per disk, Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle motor technology, ATA SMART feature set, ATA Automatic Acoustic Management, ATA Device Configuration overlay and Multi-Burst On-The-Fly Error Correction. Utilising Samsung’s SilentSeek technology, the M60 Series and M60 SATA Series should provide laptop users and with some of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives in the industry, claims the company.

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