Western Digital might have eliminated a good contender by buying up Hitachi Global Storage, but there’s still another strong contender from East, and that’s the Koreans. Everyone might have their attention on SSD, but Samsung is still hard at work researching on these classic bricks. The Korean electronics giant has just announced a new series of Spinpoint drives with greater areal density.

The new HDDs promise to deliver up to 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM, which means 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage (courtesy of two 500GB platters) in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3GB/s SATA interface. Though, the 5,400RPM might be quite disappointing for some.

SOURCE via Maximum PC