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Samsung releases an EcoGreen 1.5 TB HDD, uses 45% less power
TG Daily - Hardware News —
San Jose (CA) - 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. Samsung's "EcoGreen" name employs what they call an Eco-Triangle methodology for the drive's construction, which is "low-power, low-heat and low-noise operation." The drive contains 500 GB platters which, compared to other drives, allows for more data on less surface area. Said Andy Higginbotham, Samsung's director of HDD sales, "Lower platter count means less power to start the motor, less power to continuously spin the motor and a lighter head-stack ...
Samsung launches three platter 1.5TB HDD
TechSpot —
Samsung Electronics has launched its new EcoGreen F2EG line of hard disk drives with capacities of up to 1.5 terabytes. While not as capacious as Western Digital and Seagates 2TB offerings, the new drive also sports a 500GB per platter design and reportedly consumes around 40 percent less power than most comparably priced HDDs thanks to its EcoTriangle technology. [image] To put that into perspective, the 1.5TB F2EG uses 6.3 watts during read/writes and 5.1 watts when idle whereas Western Digitals 1TB RE2-GP energy efficient hard drive has an average operational power ...
Samsung EcoGreen Hard Drive: 1.5TB at 45% the Energy Cost
Maximum PC —
Move over Western Digital and make room for Samsung with its new EcoGreen F2EG hard drive. At 1.5TB, Samsung's environmentally conscious hard drive offers high capacity while cutting back on power consumption by almost half over "competitive drives." "Lower platter count means less power to start the motor, less power to continuously spin the motor and a lighter head-stack which takes less power to seek," said Andy Higginbotham ...
