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Hitachi Releases World's Most Energy-Efficient HDD

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fewer-hamsters-required dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today Hitachi released what they are calling the 'world's most energy efficient desktop hard drive' capable of reducing the active and idle power consumption by up to 40 percent over the previous generation." The drive will come in a range of flavors starting at 250GB and ranging to 500GB. Hitachi is promising these drives in high volume later this year.

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  1. Okay, Less Power by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Okay, less power. But what have you given up in the trade-off?

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  2. your wallet by reaktor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can bet these will be more pricey.

  3. This might be interesting for large arrays... by Gordo_1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    but for most desktops and servers, at 6-8 watts idle and 10-12 watts when actively seeking, HDD power consumption typically represents 5% or less of the overall power consumption of a modern system. Good PR for Hitachi though.

  4. That's nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    We have a closet full of hard drives, some of which have consumed zero Watts for about a decade.

    How's that for energy efficient?

  5. Re:Three obvious things by More_Cowbell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A) These drives were basically designed for datacenters, so you can look at paying out the teeth for them.
    Actually I doubt that. From TFA, they are 7200rpm SATA drives. In data centers this is really not what you will find.
    All servers in data centers are running 15000rpm these days. Mostly SCSI until recently, in my experience.
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  6. High volume by amRadioHed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hitachi is promising these drives in high volume later this year. Damn, I was hoping that the drives would be quieter too.
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