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  Samsung has announced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 equipped external drives in its STORY Station portfolio. The new 3.5-inch STORY Station is the fastest STORY Station from Samsung and claims to be 10 times faster than the drives with USB 2.0 interface. The drive with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transfers content at a speed of 5Gbps, which [...]

  Samsung has been awarded five iF Material awards by International Forum Design. The award is given to the products which are uniquely designed and Samsung has bagged the most of them this year, including the Gold Award. The Gold Award was given to G Series USB HDDs for its distinct appearance and the usage [...]

  Samsung has announced a new edition of its 2.5-inch S2 Portable hard drive. The Korean giant has collaborated with KBS Media to pre-load Full House, a TV show from South Korea. In addition to the show, the drive will also feature interviews from the director and the cast. It will sell in July in [...]

  Samsung has unveiled Spinpoint MP4 hard drive targeted at high performance seeking notebook users. The 2.5-inch HDD comes in capacities of up to 640GB, runs at a speed of 7,200RPM and claims to have an improved 30 percent data processing speed. The Spinpoint MP4 supports SATA interface, 16MB buffer memory and features Dynamic Balancing, [...]

  Samsung has announced a new 2TB HDD targeted at high performance desktop users. The EcoGreen F3EG takes the helm from its predecessor F2EG and integrates 500GB per platter, which is capable of storing up to 880 hours of DVD videos or 500,000 MP3 songs in a power efficient manner. Since its eco-friendly, the drive [...]

  UPDATE: The drives will be released by the end of this month for $299 (2TB). Current Samsung STORY Station HDDs support only USB 2.0 interface but now with the arrival of STORY Station Plus, the new external HDDs also support eSATA. Winner of Good Design Award, the STORY Station Plus will give users the [...]

  Samsung added two storage capacities to its S Series external HDD lineup – the 3.5-inch S3 Station and 2.5-inch S2 portable has now got a capacious 2TB and 640GB options respectively. Apart from the larger storage, these S Series drives come with the same features like Auto Backup, SecretZone and SafetyKey. The 640GB S2 [...]

  Looks like Samsung has used its Spinpoint N3U to bring the first 250GB capacity 1.8-inch external USB HDD to the world. They have added 250 and 200GB variants to its 1.8-inch S1 Mini line and if you were to consume all the 250GB space, it would take around 80,000 photos or 60,000 MP3s or [...]

  Samsung has announced a 3.5-inch 1TB Spinpoint F3 HDD that uses two platters instead of the usual three. 500GB on each platter means increase in areal density, faster data access and enhances performance by up to 30 percent. In addition to this, less number of mechanical parts also increases its reliability towards data failure. [...]

  Samsung has announced a new hard drive to cater to the 1.8-inch external HDD market. The Spinpoint N3U comes in capacities of up to 250GB and instead of adding a bridge circuit board to convert the PATA interface to USB, the new drives integrate the USB controller right on its printed circuit board. With [...]