Samsung releases an EcoGreen 1.5 TB HDD, uses 45% less power

 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 which takes less power to seek. 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 F2EG drive contains a 16 MB or 32 MB buffer, 3.0 Gigabits per second interface and comes in 500 GB, 1 TB or 1.5 TB versions. The 1.5 TB model sells for $149.