Samsung Intros 2-platter 1TB HDD for notebooks

New 2.5 inch Samsung of the, 1 TB HDD for notebooks has two trays of 500 GB each.

Wednesday evening, Samsung revealed its new 2.5 inch Spinpoint M8 internal HDD for notebooks which consists of two 500 GB drives for a total of 1 TB of storage space. Previous 1 TB Spinpoint MT2 5200RPM disc released in July 2010 features three plateaus at each 333 GB.

According to Samsung, the high density was obtained by using the advanced technology (rear) that triggers the stocking density of data per unit area, allowing the "data storage effective and practical." The overall structure of hard disk, measuring just 9.5 mm thick, was also redesigned with a reduced number of components such as disk drives and heads, and generates a 7% increase in speed of operation and the decline of 8% of the demand of top power predecessor.

"The new Spinpoint M8 line-up supports the continued growth of high density data storage density curve, especially as it raises the bar to exceed the levels of density terabyte in the mobile computing space," said C.H. Lee of Samsung, Vice President of strategic marketing for storage.

Spinpoint M8 connects via a SATA 3Gbps interface and comes packed with a 8 MB buffer memory. Samsung has also incorporated EcoSeek and NoiseGuard functions for minimal noise levels. The redesign of the structure also ensures improved shock resistance to protect the disk physical failure and data loss.

Samsung 2-Tray 1 TB Spinpoint M8 is currently in mass production and will be available worldwide at a date not disclosed for an MSRP of $129.

Update: Thanks to all for point out that we had the bad photo related to the article. Samsung sent just above the image correctly, as indicated above.

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Nvidia Intros Beta Driver Supporting SLI on AMD 900 Series

Although SLI-certified AMD motherboards have been available for some time, Nvidia just released a set of beta drivers to unlock the requested feature.

Back in April, Nvidia's Tom Peterson revealed that the company was officially supporting SLI on motherboards playing host to AMD's 9-Series chipsets. Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI were said to be among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer SLI support, with others arriving shortly.

"Long term gamers probably remember that for a long time AMD offered great high-end CPUs, but in recent years, AMD’s stature as the preferred gaming CPU fell by the wayside and Intel CPUs have been the gamers’ choice," Petersen explained. "For this reason, we’ve only licensed SLI for motherboards with Intel chipsets. We’ve been recently hearing chants of 'SLI for AMD CPUs,' and figured that now is a great time to do it."

Following the post, SLI-certified motherboards with AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets began to appear on store shelves and online retailers, but the coveted feature still remained "locked" due to a lack of compatible drivers. That has now changed with the release of Nvidia's new GeForce 275.50 beta drivers, available starting Monday (release note - PDF)

As indicated, the new driver enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. The new driver set also improves 3D Vision performance with Duke Nukem Forever with 3-way SLI and Quad SLI technology.

"With Release 275 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations," the notes read. "This driver package includes v275.33 3D Vision Controller driver. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information."

New 3D Vision game profiles were also added to the beta release including the Duke Nukem Forever demo, the Mars benchmark, Rise of the Immortals and Rusty Hearts. The Alice Madness Returns profile was also updated with a rating of "Good."

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