Samsung to sell through Microtronica

Microtronica has announced that it is to distribute hard drives for Samsung. The distribution specialist says that the deal will improve its offerings to its customers. "Samsung has focused only on drives using the IDE/ATAPI interface and this boosts our strength in this area," said Robin Varley, marketing manager at Microtronica. "We know that our customers will share our confidence in products from Samsung, with its well respected brand name." Products available through the new distributor include Samsung's Spinpoint W and V series. The Spinpoint range features access times of 9.5 ms, capacities of up to 12.9GB, and transfer rates peaking at 66 megabytes per second. ®