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Samsung unveils 1.5TB 'EcoGreen' F2EG hard drives

T_F   on 08 March 2009 - 15:37 · 15 comments & 4134 views

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Samsung today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks. As hard disk capacity increases from an increased number of disks, so does power consumption. However, Samsungs F2EG drive offers low power consumption by using EcoTriangle, a low-power, low-heat, low-noise operation technology. With its advanced design and fewer components, the F2EG drive is 40% lower in power consumption in idle mode and 45% lower in reading/writing mode than competitive drives.

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#1 Intelman on 08 Mar 2009 - 17:44
Samsung is making great drives lately. I love my Spinpoint F1.
(1 reply) #2 danisflying527 on 09 Mar 2009 - 01:16
Hmm,, i would seriously considering replacing this with my 500GB
#2.1 RAID 0 on 09 Mar 2009 - 17:27
danisflying527 said,
Hmm,, i would seriously considering replacing this with my 500GB


Why would you want to replace a 1.5 TB drive with a 500 GB drive? ;-)
(2 replies) #3 AnarKhy on 09 Mar 2009 - 02:12
i use 80gb and have a plenty of space left. people donwload too much porn. lol
#3.1 SimNet on 09 Mar 2009 - 02:59
I have 320 and 56gb left...

Mostly music! (RAP, yeah that's right, chris.)
#3.2 MightyJordan on 10 Mar 2009 - 11:11
AnarKhy said,
i use 80gb and have a plenty of space left. people donwload too much porn. lol

Good for you then. I wouldn't have a problem with free space if I didn't play so many games and watch a lot of videos and have a fairly big music collection. My music is just over 30GB, and it takes over a quarter of my 120GB laptop. Thankfully, when I'm not on the move, I've got my PC back up and running with it's mega 1TB hard drive!
(1 reply) #4 qdave on 09 Mar 2009 - 04:51
hmm i would not want to see such thing fail!

i have 150gb and 1gb left
#4.1 -=imaak=- on 10 Mar 2009 - 18:27
lol
if u have vista
then try removing hibernation files
and system restore junk :p
This will free up sum space say 1 gb or more
#5 surrealvortex on 09 Mar 2009 - 12:55
I have 40 gb and 13 gb free.
(1 reply) #6 SH3K0 on 09 Mar 2009 - 16:33
I got 1.7 TB and just under 300GB left...
#6.1 -=imaak=- on 10 Mar 2009 - 18:28
rotfl
is ur coputer used as a server ? :p
#7 stevan on 10 Mar 2009 - 15:14
i have 3x1tb and 2x500gb and basically less than 100gb free. no porn whatsoever.
#8 -=imaak=- on 10 Mar 2009 - 18:30
ok thats sum nice power analysis
bt what abt its speed ?
7200 RPms ?
(1 reply) #9 freeeekyyy on 16 Mar 2009 - 01:54
I love how marketing for virtually every company out there has jumped on this "green" fad. It just makes good sense to have more storage on fewer disks, it's not a "green" thing. What would be even more "green" is to not use hard drives at all. Not drive cars at all. Not use light bulbs at all, etc. But obviously nobody wants that. They just want to pretend they're being "green" and still live the same lives. And who could blame them. I don't want to give up modern life either. Which is why this "green" fad is such utter, ridiculous nonsense.
#9.1 Joe USer on 19 Mar 2009 - 12:57
freeeekyyy said,
What would be even more "green" is to not use hard drives at all. Not drive cars at all. Not use light bulbs at all, etc. But obviously nobody wants that. They just want to pretend they're being "green" and still live the same lives..


What you described isn't "green" it's just regressive. Going "green" is about using modern technology without having a huge environmental impact.
If anyone wants to live the Amish life, great, go for it, but don't mix the two, they are not the same thing.

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