Samsung today introduced the Spinpoint M7 rugged hard disk drive for mobile professionals as well as students who carry their data roughly. The new Spinpoint M7 drive is based on 2.5" form factor and comes in up to 500GB storage capacity 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.

The drive boast a new controller to reduce power consumption in seek mode by up to 25 percent over conventional 2.5” drives. According to Sammy, internal test results on PC Mark show an 18 percent improvement in overall performance over 2.5” hard drives.

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

The Spinpoint M7 500GB hard drive is lightweight and durable, featuring a 5400rpm spindle speed, 8MB cache, native command queuing and a 3.0Gbps SATA interface.

The Spinpoint M7 is available in 250-, 320-, 400-, 500-GB capacities.

The Samsung Spinpoint M7 will be available by month end.