Samsung Spinpoint M6 500GB 2.5" Notebook Drive out in March 2008--Fits Macs

Samsung announced at CES in Las Vegas that their Spinpoint M6 500GB 2.5" notebook hard disk drive is expected to be available in March 2008. The drive will be 9.5mm tall so it will fit in Apple MacBooks, MacBook Pros, PowerBook G4s and iBooks.

According to Samsung, its new Spinpoint M6 500GB consists of three 166GB platters in a 2.5" hard disk drive frame measuring just 9.5mm in height. In addition, the Spinpoint M6 500GB hard drive features a 5400rpm spindle speed, a 8MB cache, and 3.0Gbps SATA interface with a free fall sensor and a rotational vibration sensor available as optional features.

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology enables the 500GB drive to store 160,000 digital images, 125 hours of DVD movies, or 60 hours of high definition video images. The drive also features Samsung’s Flying on Demand head technology that improves recording stability over changing temperature ranges.

When available, the Samsung Spinpoint M6 500GB drive will be the largest capacity drive available for Apple's notebook computers. No pricing was announced.

We recently reviewed the 320GB Scorpio notebook drive from Western Digital that we are using with our 15" 2.4GHz MacBook Pro. [Bill Fox]