Samsung Announces Largest 7200RPM 2.5" Drive

Are you one that needs a good deal of hard drive space on your on your laptop, but at the same time don't want to sacrifice speed? Samsung has just announced a new 200GB 7200RPM 2.5-inch drive that might suit your needs.

This makes it the largest 7200RPM 2.5-inch drive by 40GB. The SpinPoint MP1 achieves this using perpendicular recording on two 100GB platters. You'll also get the benefit of a 16MB cache, SATA 3.0Gbps and a rotary vibration controller.

Expect to see these in laptops and servers sometime later this year. The drives are set to begin production in May, no word on pricing yet.

Samsung Launches 200GB, 7200RPM 2.5" Enterprise HDD [via dailytech]