Samsung coming with Spinpoint F4 drives

Redzo · Post by **Redzo** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:01 am

Well samsung have finally launched their F4 drives. Capacity is 320GB, SpinPoint F4 features a single 640 GB platter used on just one side and therefore with just one read head.. Performance should be 10% better then current F3 drives due to higher data density.
Interesting is that they cut cache to either 8 or 16Mb (depending on the capacity of the drive), down from 32MB in F3 series.

And the bad news is that they appear to be OEM only so far.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10 ... o.greener/

Eunos · Post by **Eunos** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:51 pm

Sounds interesting, I hope they consider making a 5400 rpm version.

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:29 pm

640GB on one side of a platter is some pretty incredible density.

Wonder if there's anything stopping them from achieving that density on both sides and shipping a drive with ~1.25TB/platter. 5TB 4-platter drive anyone?

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:36 pm

Each side of the platter does not have 640GB, that's the total density of the platter.

Redzo · Post by **Redzo** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:05 pm

frostedflakes wrote:640GB on one side of a platter is some pretty incredible density.

Wonder if there's anything stopping them from achieving that density on both sides and shipping a drive with ~1.25TB/platter. 5TB 4-platter drive anyone?

Tephras wrote:Each side of the platter does not have 640GB, that's the total density of the platter.

+1
as Tephras said, density is 320GB per side totaling 640 per platter.

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:28 am

Ah sorry, I misread it as 640GB per side.

dan · Post by **dan** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:21 am

It sounds like they are only using 1 side for total of 320gb? will there be 1-platter 640gb, 2-platter 1.2 tb, 3-platter 1.8tb?

bean1975 · Post by **bean1975** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:40 pm

320GB, the F4 is designed for speed with its entire storage in a single, half-platter design

to me it looks like they use both sides but only half of the sides to make it speedier.

dan · Post by **dan** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:54 pm

bean1975 wrote:320GB, the F4 is designed for speed with its entire storage in a single, half-platter design

to me it looks like they use both sides but only half of the sides to make it speedier.

will they have higher capacity hd?