Samsung Semiconductor Inc. proclaim a novel, more dependable 3.5-in desktop hard drive, a desktop optical disk drive that it said is the minimum in the earth and an interior Blu-ray player it described as the greatest it has ever created.

Samsung's novel Spinpoint F4 hard drive has 320GB capacity on a solitary disk platter.

The 7,200rpm drive is more dependable than previous models as it has 70% less moving parts, plus a single read/write head, according to John Suh, executive of Samsung's Optical Media Solutions group.

Samsung naturally sells hard drives with double real/write heads.

He said Samsung's characteristic desktop hard drives present 640GB of capacity on two platters, but noted that 320GB is yet a "sweet spot" in the market, prompting the company to focus on introducing a lower-capacity, but more reliable, drive.

The new Spinpoint F4 drive, due out next month, is 10% faster than Samsung's previous 320GB hard disk drives, he said.

Suh did not have an optional trade price for the drive, but said it would be "very spirited" with other 320GB interior drives on the market.

As well, Samsung initiate what it is calling the thinnest, lightest outer optical disc drive, which is just above a half-inch thick at .67-in.

The player is 5.75-in broad and 5.39-in deep and weighs about 9.5 ounces. It is 20% smaller than Samsung's present external DVD drive.