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Product Guide
Samsung Spinpoint M6 400GB / 500GB
imagine half-terabyte mobility
World’s First Three-platter Half-terabyte for NotePC Half-terabyte Mobile Drive: Three-disk Low Power and Low Acoustic Noise Solution in Standard 9.5mm Z-height Samsung's Spinpoint M6 500GB low power The Samsung Spinpoint M6 500GB is the first three-disk hard drive to deliver a whopping halfterabyte capacity using the industry's most sophisticated recording and mechanism technology. The Spinpoint M6's design is truly revolutionary by fitting three disks within the industry's standard 9.5mm Z-height. This is critical because it enables notebook PC manufacturers to easily integrate the M6 into the tens of millions of notebook PCs that ship every quarter. The M6 drive offers the industry's largest capacity for premium notebook PCs, slim desktop computers, and external hard drives.
Superior Performance This SATA 3.0Gbps drive has 167GBs of formatted capacity per disk. The Spinpoint M6 utilizes Samsung perpendicular recording technology, enabling the drive to set new records in both areal density and platter capacity. The Spinpoint M6 hard drive features a 5400rpm spindle speed, 8MB cache, and freefall sensor available as optional feature. The 500GB M6 drive can store approximately 160,000 digital images, 125 hours of DVD movies, or 60 hours of high-definition video images. To improve recording stability during dramatic temperature changes, the Spinpoint M6 also features Samsung's Flying-onDemand head technology.
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requirements are due to the drive's proprietary printed circuit board electronics. Leveraging its expertise in mechanism and firmware design, Samsung has minimized acoustic noise in this drive.
Special Features for Premium Notebook PCs Samsung's Spinpoint M6 offers special features suitable for a broad range of premium notebook PC applications. Capacities for this drive go up to half a terabyte, with a Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps interface and excellent performance at all levels. For premium notebook PCs, the Spinpoint M6 meets the Microsoft time-to-ready requirements. The Spinpoint M6 supports ramp load / unload up of 600,000 times. A Free Fall Sensor also enables the drive to operate more efficiently in a mobile environment.
How does Samsung make this possible? The key technology that makes all of this possible is Samsung-developed perpendicular recording technology. Perpendicular recording is a very different method to store bits on the disk drive platter. On a disk drive, each bit (1 or 0) is stored as magnetic information vertically on the platter; rather than the previous method of storing the magnetic information horizontally on the platter. The result is the magnetic poles of each bit do not fight with the magnetic poles of neighboring bits. Now bits can be packed more tightly next to each other, and the sectors can be packed more tightly side by side.
Samsung Spinpoint M6 imagine half-terabyte mobility The Samsung M6 Mobile Drive : Capability for NotePC • Max. 167GB formatted capacity per disk • SATA Native Command Queuing Feature • ATA Security Mode Feature Set • ATA S.M.A.R.T. Feature Set • TuMR/PMR head with FOD technology • Serial ATA 3.0Gbps Interface Support • Load / Unload Head Technology • SilentSeek™ • NoiseGuard™
Capacity Model & Buffer
8MB
400GB
500GB
HM400LI
HM500LI
DRIVE CONFIGURATION
ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS
Capacity1
400 / 500 GB
Interface
SATA 3.0 Gbps(1.5 Gbps)
Buffer DRAM Siz2
8 MB
Byte per Sector
512 bytes
Rotational Speed
5,400 RPM
PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS
Temperature Operating
5 ~ 55 °C
Non-operating
-40 ~ 70 °C
Humidity (non-condensing) Operating
5 ~ 90 %
Non-operating
5 ~ 95 %
Linear Shock (1/2 sine pulse)
Average Seek time (typical)
12 ms
Data Transfer Rate
Operating, 2ms
325 G
Non-operating, 1ms
900 G
Media to/from Buffer (max.)
860 Mb/s
Vibration (swept sine, 1/4 octave per minute)
Buffer to/from Host (max.)
300 MB/s
Operating
Average Latency
5.6 ms
Drive Ready Time (typical)3
5 sec
0.76 Grms
Altitude (relative to sea level) Operating
-300 to 3,000 m
Non-operating
-400 to 15000 m
RELIABILITY SPECIFICATIONS Non-recoverable Read Error
1 sectorin1014 bits
Controlled Ramp Load/Unload
600,000
ACOUSTICS (AVERAGE SOUND POWER)3
POWER REQUIREMENTS Voltage
+5V±5%
Spin-up Current (Max.)
1000 mA
Seek (AVG)4
2.6 W
Idle
2.5 Bel
Read/Write (AVG)
2.3 W
Performance Seek
2.7 Bel
Low Power Idle (AVG)
0.6 W
Standby (AVG) * Note : Design and specifications are subject to change without prior notice.
0.25 W
Sleep (AVG)
0.2 W
PHYSICAL DIMENSION Height
9.5 mm
Width
69.85 mm
Length
100 mm
Weight (max.)
115 g
1.1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes *Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity 2. A small portion of the 8MB buffer memory is reserved for firmware use 3. Power-On to Drive Ready 4. 30% duty cycle, random seek
Headquarters SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD 416, Maetan-3Dong, Yeongtong-Gu, Suwon City, Gyeonggi-Do Korea 443-742 tel.82-31-200-3814 fax.82- 31-200-3827
North America SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR INC. 3655 North First Street San Jose, CA tel.1-408-544-4159 fax.1-408-544-4926
Europe SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR Europe GmbH Kölner Strasse 12 Eschborn Germany tel.49-6196-66-3327 fax.49-6196-66-3099
Asia/Pacific SAMSUNG ASIA PTE. LTD. SAMSUNG HUB 3 Church Street #25-01/02 Singapore tel.65-68-333-330 fax.65-68-333-340
South America SAMSUNG ELECTRONICA DA AMAZONIA LTDA Av. Das Nacoes Unidas, 12901-8o Andar-Torre Oeste Brooklin Novo Sao Paulo-SP-Brasil tel.55-11-5644-6400 fax.55-11-5644-2787
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AUSTRAILIA CO., LTD. 8 Parkview Drive Homebush Bay Sydney NSW Australia tel.61-2-9763-9771 fax.61-2-9764-6440
China SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS H. K. CO., LTD. P.R.C. Nanshan District, Shenzhen 19 Fl., Han Tang Building, Hua Qiao Cheng, China tel.86-755-86085888 fax.86-755-86085788
India SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD. 7th-8th Floor, IFCI Tower, 61, Nehru Place New Delhi India tel.91-11-4151-1234 fax.91-11-4160-8820
