Samsung will sell 1TB drive under $199

[Deafbeat]

Samsung has released a one terabyte (TB) hard drive that’s capable of storing around 40 billion songs (or something near that number perhaps) for only $199, which is less than 100 English pounds. The desire for HD-quality programming and hard disk drive (HDD) recorders has led to an increase in storage capacity, and now the industry is talking about things in TBs rather than GBs. Although only an option for the PC, the EcoGreen F1 from Samsung offers a huge amount of storage for serial downloaders, or, as the Korean electronics company suggests, those with large surveillance capture needs.

Any HDD for less than a hundred pounds has to be worth the money, and this capacity would surely be all the storage you would ever need. Ever, ever, ever. Samsung have attempted to keep things decent in the spec stakes too, with 5400RPM rotational speeds, and offering the highest capacity per disk for one terabyte hard drives, at 334GB per platter. This keeps the amount of parts needed down to a minimum, thus boosting the overall performance of the device. Samsung says the drive uses up to 50 per cent less power than other one TB drives and has technology to keep it quiet through operation. EcoGreen F1 should be available in June of this year.

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[alibhai]

Wd us selling a TB Hdd for 19k i think... so this would be around 5k less. Not too much but enough to buy another 320gb HDD

[soulblighter]

Most of 1TB are under or around 200$ mark

[Dare2Dream]

whAT matters most, whether portable drives of such capacity are usb powered or external power supply required

[Van Helsing]

almost all external HDD over 160GB require external power through adapter.

[manigamer]

nice man i really do need a new hdd

[Seasa]

Originally Posted by manigamer

nice man i really do need a new hdd

i have a bad feeling about this

[manigamer]

^^^^ bad feeling :S

when u have a 2mb connection u just dld and dld and downloaddddd plus 360 games take over 70% of hdd space

[PaPa B[oO]ty]

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this owns every other hard disk on the planet..i'm just dying for wd to release this for sale