Okay, Samsung didn’t really come up with the first 1TB 2.5-inch drive for notebooks (Western Digital first reached 1TB limit with the Scorpio Blue almost exactly a year ago), but the Spinpoint MT2 is Samsung’s first 2.5-inch drive to hit the 1TB limit. Not that it’s information that consumers like you and me would care about, mind you – we don’t really care who came first now, do we? But we do care about which 1TB drive is better.
To that end, Samsung is claiming that the Spinpoint MT2 is 20% faster and uses 4% less power than WD’s Scorpio Blue, although in a non-standard shell (it’s a bit thicker than the usual 2.5-incher) that limits it to certain notebook models and devices with a SATA or SATA II interface.
The 1TB model packs three 333GB platters spinning at 5,400rpm, but the MT2 will also be available in a smaller 750GB model. They didn’t announce stand-alone pricing, but we should be seeing more and more notebooks rocking a 1TB drive before the year ends.
Tags: Hard Drives, Notebooks, Samsung, Spinpoint, Storage
