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China
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SAMSUNG
HARD DISK DRIVE
2007 Product Guide
“provides the most reliable storage solution”
Samsung
Hard Disk Drive
3.5
inch
2.5
inch
Slim PC
Car Navigation
Note PC
Game Console
Digital TV
Car Navigation
PDA
UM PC
PVR
Traditional PC
1.8
inch
MP3
LINE-UP
ModelCapacity(GB) RPM Interface BufferFamily
HD500LJ
HD501LJ
HD402LJ
HD403LJ
HD320KJ
HD321KJ
HD251KJ
HD252KJ
HD160HJ
HD080GJ
HD400LJ
HD401LJ
HD300LJ
HD400LD
HD300LD
SP2504C
SP2004C
SP2514N
SP2014N
HD160JJ
HD120IJ
HD080HJ
SP1644N
SP1654N
SP1243N
SP1253N
SP0842N
HM160JI
HM120II
HM080HI
HM160JC
HM120IC
HM080HC
HM120JI
HM100JI
HM060HI
HM120JC
HM100JC
HM060HC
HM080JI
HM040HI
MP0804H
MP0402H
HM16HJI
HM12HII
HM08HHI
HS080JA
HS040HA
500
500
400
400
320
320
250
250
160
80
400
400
300
400
300
250
200
250
200
160
120
80
160
160
120
120
80
160
120
80
160
120
80
120
100
60
120
100
60
80
40
80
40
160
120
80
80
40
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
7200
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
5400
3600
3600
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
PATA
PATA
SATA2
SATA2
PATA
PATA
SATA2
SATA2
SATA2
PATA
PATA
PATA
PATA
PATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
PATA
PATA
PATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
PATA
PATA
PATA
SATA
SATA
PATA
PATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
PATA/CEATA
PATA/CEATA
8
16
8
16
8
16
8
16
8
8
8
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
2
8
2
8
2
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
2
2
T166
T133S
T133
P120S
P120
P80SD
P80
M80S
M80
M60S
M60
M40S
M40
MH80S
N40
F/Factor
3.5"
2.5"
2.5”
Hybrid HDD
1.8"
Capture the World
Market with the best Quality
T
here were enormous changes in the HDD industry in the
past decade. The excessive competition among companies
had resulted in an industry wide deterioration of profitability
for some time.
With large scale restructuring of the industry, Samsung
Electronics succeeded in turning around an important yet
unprofitable HDD business into a profitable and dynamic one.
The improved product competitiveness and commitment to reliability are the keys we
relied on to achieve great success in such a difficult market environment. Especially
noteworthy, are the critical investments Samsung made years ago to ensure the highest
qualities of its products. These investments paid great dividends, and Samsung earned a
notable reputation from major OEMs with unmatched high quality standards. We have
also succeeded in expanding the product line-up from 3.5inch to 2.5inch hdd.
In addition, paradigm changes in the storage business environment open ample
opportunity for Samsung to arise as a total storage solution leader in the industry.
Digital convergence trends of IT and consumer electronics dims the boundary between
these two different business areas. Samsung, with its well-known CE business
experiences, take advantages that no HDD companies can nourish.
Hereby, we contributed to achieving a perfect AV environment of PC by our success in
developing acoustic noise suppression technologies such as NoiseGuard
TM
and
SilentSeek
TM
. Samsung will continue to seek ways to leverage our productive R&D efforts,
as always.
Samsung plans to accelerate current business momentum with innovations
in competitiveness such as best product reliability, fast time-to-market, superior
performance, and a noiseless operation environment.
Samsung Hard Disk Drive 2007 Product Guide
W
hen the 140MB HDD was introduced in 1973,
no one would have even imagined the current 500
Gigabytes HDD in production today. The complexity of
programs, and popular use of graphic / AV applications,
inevitably makes the PC user to consider the capacity of HDD
as an important factor in selecting the PC along with the CPU
speed and the size of RAM memory. To address this change in
the market, Samsung has succeeded in producing the 500 Gigabytes hard disk drive,
constructed from three 166 Gigabytes per platter disks. This page will describe how this
high-capacity HDD now provides a new world of enjoyment and convenience to users.
AV Environment in PC With the rapid distribution of the PC and the Internet, more
and more users want to implement AV features of TV, VTR, and Recorder in their PCs.
Especially, in cases of users in urban areas, they prefer to purchase the PC with AV
features, instead of buying other electronic appliances, to make most out of limited
living spaces. This has enabled PCs with AV features, such as TV and PVR, to emerge in
the market. For example, a PC with a built-in PVR feature, allows the user to use the
instant playback function on their PCs, without purchasing any separate PVR devices.
With a 160 to 500 Gigabytes high-capacity HDD, they can also store and edit many
movies on their PCs. The consequence is that consumers can enjoy almost all AV features,
such as music, movies, Internet, and TV programs, with a single PC. The high-capacity
HDD allows users to store more movies and music titles on their PCs, and has dramatically
increased the range and quality of the PC experience for users.
Increase of PVR demand. When we think of HDD, we usually think of storage
mechanism in IT devices. Now, we can find this storage mechanism in device like Personal
video Recorder. More and more people tend to store their favorite movies, sports games,
and TV shows in their homes. With PVR, they can simply download these contents into
HDD inside it. Increasing demand of multimedia contents automatically increase the
demand for storage space to store.
High-capacity HDD to Increase Productivity for Professionals
Typically, 10 Gigabytes is required to produce a new catalogue for backup files. When
several persons are working together, it is more efficient and convenient to keep the
backup files on the HDD rather than on other media, such as CD RW and floppy disks.
Therefore, the capacity of the HDD can directly affect the productivity levels of
professionals, such as graphic designers.
Samsung Hard Disk Drive 2007 Product Guide
Behold the High Capacity
Hard Disk Drive
T
here is an emerging trend to produce PCs focused
on AV,
that seeks to maximize the efficiency of the AV
function through the Internet. For example, this kind of PC
would feature high-performance audio equipment such as
20W 2-way speaker to create better sound effects, and even a
built-in PVR function. What if the PC, designed around high
end AV features, was found to generate too much noise? It
would be a significant problem.
Major Index of Quality for PC Recently, acoustic noise level has become the major
index of quality for many home appliances, such as air-conditioners and refrigerators.
The cooling fan of the CPU and HDD are major parts in the PC that generate noise. In
case of the CPU cooling fan that generates constant noise in idle mode, recent
improvements in design have significantly reduced noise levels. Further, a new PC
without a CPU cooling fan has been introduced to eliminate this kind of noise. A HDD
usually generates 2.8 to 3.3 Bels in idle mode, and 3.0 to 3.5 Bels in seek mode. This level
of noise can cause distraction and annoyance to users, since many of them use their PC in
quiet environments, such as at night, where 3.0 Bels or less noise levels are typical.
The Cause of HDD noise The HDD generates different noise characteristics by the
frequency level. The biggest source of the noise is the spindle motor which generates
vibration from its rotating motor. The vibration is transferred to the outside of the HDD
and causes the noise. Also, the flow of air inside HDD caused by disk rotation can create
noise. During seek mode, the movement of the head actuator generates a very highpitched noise, familiar to all PC owners.
Noise GuardTMand SilentseekTMTechnologies Samsung has developed and applied
NoiseGuard
TM
technology that is a combined technology to eliminate each noise source
or to minimize energy transmission. First, modification of the spindle motor's design
minimizes the noise source. In addition, the cover is designed to optimize the flow of air.
The Damper utilizes vibration absorbing material, installed on the area of highest
density, which maximizes the transmission of energy to the outside. Furthermore, to
minimize the data seeking noise that has always irritated users, we have developed and
applied SilentSeek
TM
technology, which makes the movement of the head actuator much
smoother. While other competing technologies, such as the AAM option, cause
performance degradation to lower the noise level, Samsung's SilentSeek
TM
technology
causes virtually no degradation in performance.
Samsung Hard Disk Drive 2007 Product Guide
The Perfect AV Environment
with Noiseless Hard Disk Drive
W
hen the monitor, CD-ROM or RAM malfunctions, the
problem is limited to that particular part. However,
malfunction in the HDD means far more greater problems in
other components. It is because most PC users consider their
HDD as the final storage device for their data. Therefore,
damage in the HDD generally causes enormous intellectual
property loss. This makes PC manufacturers consider the HDD
as the most important component to prevent hardware failure and data loss, as well as
the brand image loss that would soon follow. Samsung Electronics recognizes that
product reliability is the most important aspect of our business, and answers the needs of
PC manufacturers, while it leverages our most strategic investments. As a result, the
Samsung HDD has been recognized as the most reliable products by major PC OEM
manufacturers, which has advanced Samsung's global OEM position. This page provides a
brief description of how Samsung improved product reliability.
It would have been impossible to achieve the recent advances in the high product
reliability of our HDD product by improving single aspects of the technology or process.
Therefore, it could only be achieved by innovation of the entire process from the product
design to quality assurance. The most frequent problem that causes HDD malfunction is
the collision of the head and disk, a result of the shock that occurs during the
transporting or installation of the HDD. Therefore, reducing the possibility of collision
between the head and the disk was seen by Samsung to be very important, if significant
enhancement of product reliability was to be achieved. By optimizing the head actuator
design in the early product design stage, Samsung eventually succeeded in maximizing
he shock-resistance without the degradation of the performance. ImpacGuard
TM
,
Samsung's patented technology, is designed to prevent any head actuator vibration
during a non-operating environment, which reduces the possibility of collision between
the head and the disk even further. Besides, HDD parts can also fail due to corrosion or
contamination. Samsung analyzed and eliminated these kinds of problems, at the source,
and in advance, by applying the best failure analysis technology adapted from our
experience in the semi- conductor business. For example, the microscopic pin holes on
the disk surface causes corrosion, which then causes one type of hardware failure.
Samsung analyzed this fact to solve the problem in cooperation with our disk component
suppliers. Automation of the manufacturing process was inescapable, since the HDD
consists of microscopic parts using a micrometer. For example, four screws are used to
assemble the disk onto the HDD. When this process is performed by manual labor, the
torques for each screw will be different, which, in turn, causes minute, but critical,
distortions of the disk. Also, when assembling the head actuator onto the disk, even an
infinitesimal misalignment can cause the head to scratch the disk. With the most
advanced automated manufacturing line in the industry, Samsung minimizes this
potential quality deviation that is possible by changes in the manufacturing process. In
addition, our specialized technology for HDD manufacturing is applied in the quality
assurance stage of production. As a result, our customers are allowed to focus on their
core business, reliably, in the most stable storage environment available, anywhere on
earth.
Samsung Hard Disk Drive 2007 Product Guide
Maximize the Confidence
in Data Storage
The benefits of the Hybrid HDD
1. Reduced boot time and improved system capacity
HHDD has flash memory playing a supplementary role to DRAM in order to dramatically reduce the
boot time and improve system capacity. As the read-function of flash memory is much faster than
that of a hard disk drive, it is possible to have the boot image file for a personal computer or other
user files stored using the flash beforehand and read in order to achieve a faster system speed. This is
particularly valuable for an OS that employs a 3D interface, such as Windows Vista.
2. Reduced power consumption.
HHDD uses less electricity. Through the OS paging-out process (virtual memory manager stores
unnecessary data onto the hard disk drive), personal computers regularly write data onto the hard
disk drive. In other words, every time data is stored the hard disk drive, the hard drive needs to spinup, consuming electricity: the more frequent the writing, the more electricity is consumed. HHDD,
however, enables write-caching of regular data using flash memory in order to minimize the need for
the hard disk drive to spin-up, thereby reducing the system's overall power consumption.
3. Improved durability and reliability
HHDD offers improved durability and reliability. Insofar as the need for the HDD to spin-up is
minimized, this also serves to shorten the duty cycle of the HDD, lowering the probability of headmedia collisions and errors (off-track write, etc). This can lead to increasing the MTBF.
Samsung Hard Disk Drive 2007 Product Guide
Overview
Along with the development of mobile applications, mobile storage media is fast emerging as a hot
issue. The growing trend toward mobility can easily be witnessed at some companies where
employees are provided with notebook computers so that they can move to conference rooms at
their convenience. This is just one example, but it is clear that today there is a demand for improved
mobility. At the center of this issue is the hard disk. Mobile applications require several features from
hard disks, including low energy consumption and the ability to absorb external shock. These
requirements are especially important in the case of notebook computers. Other features required by
users of personal computers include fast boot times and data stability. Hybrid hard disk drive (HHDD)
refers to a leading product that incorporates the advantages of flash into the hard disk drive,
satisfying the requirements like energy consumption and reduced boot time. HHDD adds NV Cache (
Non-Volatile Cache ) to the conventional hard disk drive; significantly improving the read and write
caching functions for the enhancement of data input/output as well as the computer's overall
capacity. Indeed, this is the first type to combine a magnetic storage device with digital
semiconductor. Unlike the hard disk drive, which requires a certain rotational speed (5400 RPM) in
order to boot, HHDD stores the boot-related data in a built-in flash cache memory. This enables an
ultra fast boot time of less than five seconds: a remarkable achievement compared to the current
standard of between 20 and 30 seconds. Additionally, battery life is expected to increase by
approximately 20-50 minutes.
Hybrid HDD
New Era of Storage
R/W
spindle
drive
seek
DRAM
Cache
SOIC/
CPU
OneNAND
Cache
Up to 90% Power Saving
when powered down
Read and Write instantly
while spindle stopped
ATA Interface
Hybrid Disk Drive Benefits
igher..
..
oot and Resume..
esistance..
nstant access..
uce Power Consumption..
..
..Reliabilit
..Faster
..Better shock
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