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  Samsung is upbeat about its external HDD sales, thanks to the rise of netbooks and notebooks. Now, to cash in the opportunity, they have announced two ‘Pop’ colors (Sweet Pink and Ocean Blue) for its S Series hard drives and storage bumps for 1.8-inch S1 Mini and 2.5-inch S2 Portable. 160GB and 500GB variant [...]

  Samsung has released a 3.5-inch STORY Station external HDD that aims to handle user’s data needs in a secure and eco-friendly way. The drive which comes in a brushed aluminum casing integrates three key features – Auto Backup, Secret Zone and SafetyKey. The Auto Backup backs up data at prescheduled intervals while SafetyKey allows [...]

  Samsung has unveiled Spinpoint M7 hard drives that come with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. Apart from withstanding shocks of greater magnitude, the drives are 18 percent faster than conventional 2.5-inch HDDs. It runs at 5400RPM and features 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 8MB cache, SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies and comes in capacities ranging from [...]

  Samsung’s HDD business is one of the partners of YouTube Symphony Orchestra and to celebrate its association, they have unveiled a special edition of S1 Mini HDD along with the YouTube logo. Apart from this, we have no info regarding its price or availability. Source

  In a telephonic interview with CNET, Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor claimed that few years down the line, there will be a price parity between HDDs and SSDs. His reasoning behind this statement is that the flash memory prices have been coming down in the last five years and the trend [...]