During the Consumer Electronic Show Samsung rolled out new hard drive products -- a 2.5" 500GB hard drive for consumer and business applications, 1.8" drive for Mobile CE devices, compact flash card sized hard drive for mobile devices, and a 128GB Flash SSD. The new Spinpoint M6 500GB drive is the "world's first" 500GB 2.5" hard drive. It features a 5400rpm spindle speed, a 8MB cache, and 1.5Gbps SATA interface with a free fall sensor and a rotational vibration sensor.

The Spinpoint N2 160GB is a 1.8-inch drive featuring speed of 4200rpm. According to the company, the 1.8" form factor drive, which is the size of a business card, ushers in a new era of high performance storage for PDAs, MP3 players, camcorders, digital cameras and game consoles.

Samsung also announced that it is shipping Compact Flash card-sized hard disk drives (HDD) for use in mobile consumer devices. Initially available in 30GB and 40GB models, Samsung's Spinpoint A1 hard disks offer significantly higher storage capacity than conventional memory cards, high shock resistance, and low power consumption. It provides PATA/CEATA/USB interface options and features a 3600rpm rotation speed, a 2MB buffer memory, shock resistance of up to 650G, a two-second drive-ready time, and nearly inaudible acoustic noise.

Samsung's Spinpoint M6 500GB will be available in the first half of 2008. The Spinpoint N2 and A-Series are both currently available for $199.