Samsung Launches 1.5 TB EcoGreen HDD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/12/2009 11:37 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Samsung has developed a 1.5 TB three platter hard disk drive (500 GB per platter) which consumes 40% less power at idle, and 45% less power when reading/writing than other comparable drives. Dubbed F2EG EcoGreen, the drive is comparably priced to high-power consuming drives.

As hard disk capacity increases from an increased number of disks, so does power consumption. However, Samsung

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