Samsung stuffs 1.5TB onto three-platter hard drive

"Because the drive has fewer platters and therefore fewer moving parts, Samsung claimed that the drive is more reliable than past iterations of multiplatter, high-capacity hard disk drives.

"While Samsung claims to have the world's first 500GB per platter drive, Western Digital actually announced its 500GB per platter, 2TB capacity Caviar Green drive in January"

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