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Samsung just announced today its new 2.5″ SpinPoint hard disks, the M5 and the MP1. M5 is intended for portable electronic devices such as laptop or UMPC. It has two models, the single disk and the dual disk model. The single disk is having a capacity of ranges between 60 and 160GB, while the dual disk is currently under development, which would provide up to 250GB of storage size. The new M5 SpinPoint hard drive features a 5400 rpm spin rate, 1.5Gbps SATA interface and 8MB cache memory. PATA models will be added to the lineup in May. The M5 is built with low noise, vibration and power consumption in mind, which makes it pretty good for small and compact computers, such as Tablet or UPMC.

Very cool, 250gb for my laptop would be brilliant, anything to make the drive quieter has to be a good thing, the only thing is, the solid state hard drives are entering the market, and solid state does seem the way forward, that said a small drive with large capacity would bring real opportunities for mobile media, movie/video/music encoding on the move? Regardless storage requirements continue to grow, my 60GB drive on my 18 month old powerbook does seem inadequate, I continue to work on the basis that I don’t need to carry all my files, all my music.. 160GB one day, one day..

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