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A quick glance at the portable hard drive space shows why this drive is so special. There are other 2TB drives out there, WD announced a 2TB 2.5" drive two years ago, but with a drive height of 15mm, WD was going after the portable hard drive market, which had stagnated with the rest of the notebook hard drive market that stalled out at 1TB. The z-height makes the WD drive too tall though for notebooks, due to its use of a 4 platter design. The Samsung M9T accomplishes its massive storage by solving the density problem, utilizing three 667GB platters within its confines. While it's easy to forget that Samsung, now a Seagate company, is still cranking away at the hard drive business, they've certainly come back with a bang with the M9T.

The M9T is highlighted by its capacity and physical size, but there's plenty of other engineering inside. The drive is notably quiet thanks to its use of NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies; it reportedly maintains 25 decibels while idle and 27 decibels during performance. It comes equipped with both ATA Security Mode and ATA S.M.A.R.T. features to keep the drive protected from anyone but the intended user. The Spinpoint M9T also comes equipped with standard head load/unload technology to keep it protected from internal physical damage, which is a consideration with any HDD.

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dan wrote:also of interest to ps4 fans

boost wrote:

dan wrote:also of interest to ps4 fans

No, PS4 doesn't boot.
I ordered one in an external enclosure, hope it's not the version with soldered on USB. It should arrive today.
This drive has been announced month ago, but is just now showing up in retail channels.

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The M9T is highlighted by its capacity and physical size, but there's plenty of other engineering inside. The drive is notably quiet thanks to its use of NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies; it reportedly maintains 25 decibels while idle and 27 decibels during performance. It comes equipped with both ATA Security Mode and ATA S.M.A.R.T. features to keep the drive protected from anyone but the intended user. The Spinpoint M9T also comes equipped with standard head load/unload technology to keep it protected from internal physical damage, which is a consideration with any HDD.

boost wrote:

dan wrote:also of interest to ps4 fans

No, PS4 doesn't boot.
I ordered one in an external enclosure, hope it's not the version with soldered on USB. It should arrive today.
This drive has been announced month ago, but is just now showing up in retail channels.

newegg doesn't sell this drive bare but seagate sells it as an external drive which can be removed and then used.

andyb wrote:

newegg doesn't sell this drive bare but seagate sells it as an external drive which can be removed and then used.

I wouldn't be so sure. Most portable HDD's now have a circuit-board that outputs directly to USB rather than SATA.

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andyb wrote:

newegg doesn't sell this drive bare but seagate sells it as an external drive which can be removed and then used.

I wouldn't be so sure. Most portable HDD's now have a circuit-board that outputs directly to USB rather than SATA.

Whilst this is true on the most part, the Seagate Backup Plus (STDR200020x) drives include the 2TB Samsung M9T with a small USB3 to SATA board attached. I run 4x 2TB M9T in a Synology DS411Slim, all shucked from Seagate external drives bought from Amazon UK over the course of a few months.

FrankL wrote:

HellDiverUK wrote:
Whilst this is true on the most part, the Seagate Backup Plus (STDR200020x) drives include the 2TB Samsung M9T with a small USB3 to SATA board attached. I run 4x 2TB M9T in a Synology DS411Slim, all shucked from Seagate external drives bought from Amazon UK over the course of a few months.

are you sure that the STDR200020x series have the SATA to USB convertor, rather than a USB connector directly on the HDD inside the enclosure? I've understood that the STDR200010x series used SATA drives internally, but heard rumours this changed for the STDR200020x series... and the STDR200010x series seem no longer to be easily available on this side of the pond.