Samsung is most associated with consumer electronic devices like HDTVs, Blu-ray players and computers. The company also makes a line of storage products like hard drives that it may not be as well known for.

Samsung has announced its latest hard drive line that features new 500GB per platter technology allowing capacities of 1TB with only two platters. Competing drives with 333GB platters need three platters to reach the same capacity. The new drives are called the Spinpoint F3 line.

The drive operates at 7200rpm, has up to 1TB of storage, and promises faster performance and less energy consumption. Samsung says that the drive is up to 30% higher performance than other server and desktop drives with three platters. The drive uses the SATA 3Gbps interface and have 16MB or 32MB buffers. The drive is available now in 500GB and the 1TB version will ship in August.

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