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Samsung EcoGreen Hard Drive: 1.5TB at 45% the Energy Cost

Posted 03/10/09 at 03:45:29 PM  by Paul Lilly

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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, director of HDD sales and marketing for the Samsung Semiconductor Storage Division. “With fewer heads and disks, the F2EG hard drive has a lower probability of head-disk failures, enabling customers to build more reliable systems."

The EcoGreen F2EG hard drive serves up 500GB on each of its 3 platters. Combined with the company's EcoTriangle "los-power, low-heat, low-noise operating technology," Samsung says the F2EG reduces power consumption by 40 percent in idle mode and 45 percent in reading/writing mode.

In addition to 1.5TB, the EcoGreen series also comes in 500GB and 1TB capacities with both 16MB and 32MB cache.

The F2EG drives are shipping now to "major OEM businesses," with the 1.5TB version priced at $149 MSRP.

 Image Credit: Samsung

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TAGS: samsung, storage, Hard Drive, HDD, hardware, build a pc, 1.5tb, ecogreen, f2EG
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avatarWho cares about a minute

Submitted by silentrob187 on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 7:43pm

Who cares about a minute drop in power consumption?  "EcoGreen"? My GOD, the logic behind all this is like a vegitarian only eating half a chicken instead of a whole chicken.  This is a ploy to sell more hard drives to trendy non-thinking idiots with low self-esteeme and an empty life who actually beleive that by using "green" technology is going to save the world.  How is buying a reduced power consuming hard drive going to impact the course of the planet in any significant way?  It's not.  Especially considering that the hard drive is for a COMPUTER which is electrical and requires the buringing/death of something to use. 

Turning off you PC when not in use is probably more "green" then this drive or any other "green" PC or component.  In fact why not scrap the computer altogether if you want to be green?  Now that's green! 

I just hope MPC keeps out of this whole "green" thing like it has so far unlike other PC mags that try to ride the wave of "green."   "Green" and PCs do mix...at least if you wan't a MAXIMUM PC.

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avatarWho cares about a minute

Submitted by rlidia on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 11:47pm

Yeah, I agree with you!!

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avatarRotational speed

Submitted by horzo on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 3:32pm

Rotational speed undisclosed?

 

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avatarthe EcoGreen F2 is 5400rpm,

Submitted by schneider1492 on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 11:44pm

the EcoGreen F2 is 5400rpm, the Average Seek Time is 8.9ms, Average Latency is 5.52ms, random access time 16.7.

the Spinpoint f1 is 7200rpm, 8.9ms, 4.17ms, 14.

the Barracuda is 7200rpm, not listed, 4.16ms, 13.6

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avatarI wonder how 12 of these

Submitted by Kaze on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 3:02pm

I wonder how 12 of these would fare if in a RAID 6 on an Areca card...

 

-=KAZE=-

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