Seven-Year Warranty for Samsung RAID Class SATA HDDs

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announces the industry’s first seven-year product warranty for a hard disk drive. Prior hard drive warranties have been limited to three to five years. The Spinpoint F1 RAID Class (F1R) 3.5" SATA hard drives, featuring 250GB to 1TB capacities, are designed for enterprise storage and surveillance applications.

"Samsung is committed to delivering the best-in-class enterprise storage products covered by the industry’s strongest and best warranty," said Hubbert Smith, director of Enterprise Storage Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "Our dedication to product quality deserved a matching warranty, so we have raised the customer service bar with the industry’s first seven-year product warranty."

Enterprise environments require critical features such as high reliability in heavy-duty 24/7 operations, low power consumption, improved performance, high capacity, and an audio and video streaming firmware command set. The F1R hard drive is designed for other demanding applications such as super computing, software development, data warehousing, surveillance, call centers and nearline/backup storage systems.

The F1R meets the hard drive industry’s highest quality standards with a mean time between failure (MTBF) of up to 1.2 million hours. The new F1R also offers enterprise class functions such as command completion time limit and vibration tolerance with RV controller (RVC). It features a 16 or 32MB cache, a Serial ATA 3.0Gbps interface, a 175MB/s maximum media transfer rate, and native command queuing (NCQ) for random input and output performance. Samsung leads the industry with its implementation of perpendicular recording and three platter 1TB design.

Samsung’s F1R hard drives are currently shipping with a $299 MSRP, featuring the world’s highest recording capacity using only three platters.