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Samsung announced their new 2.5 inch mechanical hard drive yesterday, the M7. Designed specifically for the “road warrior” type, the M7 has a more ruggedized design with a shock tolerance of

400G/2ms. You’d pretty much have to fire this thing out of a cannon to make it miss a beat. At least, that’s what they’d like you to think. Maybe we should try it. From the press release:

> Seoul, Korea—April 21, 2009: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a > world leader in digital consumer electronics and information > technology, today introduced their new 500-Gigabyte 

(GB) 2.5-inch > hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The > Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter > features a rugged base and cover 

design, offering better data > protection for road warriors and other mobile laptop users. >  > “Our customers have been requesting hard drives with higher > density, lower power

 and greater reliability for their mobile > applications,” said C.H. Lee, vice president, Storage sales & > marketing, Samsung Electronics. “The Spinpoint M7 answers these > 

needs with a high-speed operating shock specification and > extraordinary drive capacity for storing large data files, music, > photos and videos.” >  > The Spinpoint M7 is 

available in 250-, 320-, 400-, 500-GB > capacities. A new controller has been adopted to reduce power > consumption in seek mode to up to 25 percent over conventional > 2.5” drives.

 In particular, internal test results on PC Mark show > an 18 percent improvement in overall performance over 2.5” hard > drives. >  > “Samsung’s M7 will appeal to notebook PC 

customers who want to > have a hard drive operating shock tolerance for mobile applications > in tough environments,” commented John Chen, senior director, > TRENDFOCUS. >  > 

The Spinpoint M7 utilizes Samsung’s proprietary SilentSeek™ and > NoiseGuard™ technologies to minimize the noise-level of the > mechanical drive operation.