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Samsung intros 1TB Spinpoint MT drive for notebooks

Samsung Tuesday announced its new 1TB Spinpoint MT2 2.5-inch internal hard drive. The new drive is suitable for portable storage like portable external hard drives, or could also be used for anything from future HDTVs, home theater systems, set-top boxes, and some laptops.

Unfortunately, the drive has a non-standard height dimension, 12.5 mm. Most 2.5-inch internal hard drives are 9.5 mm. Apple uses 9.5 mm hard drive as standard equipment in its notebooks; 12.5 mm drives are not officially supported by Apple.

The new Spinpoint drive uses 333GB per-platter technology and runs at 5400 rpm. It also utilizes Samsung's NoiseGuard technology to reduce unwanted noise, which makes it well-suited for home theater products or other devices that need to run quietly.

Samsung also claims that the Spinpoint MT2 features 20 percent increased read/write performance and consumes 4 percent less power compared to similar drives.

And not that you'll ever need it, but Samsung says that the drive also features shock resistance up to 400G for 2 ms in operation mode and up to 800G for 1 ms when the power is off.

Pricing was not available at the time of the announcement.

Editor's note: Updated 7/23/10 at 3:45PM PT with Apple's policy on 12.5 mm hard drive upgrades.