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The fact that a large amount of rarely combined with high energy efficiency, our regular readers to talk about. All hard drive manufacturers on magnetic platters offer consumers a choice between the quick and efficient models of hard drives. With the advent of large volumes of hard drives, each manufacturer has included in its product range model with reduced spindle speed.

Samsung has not become a stand out from the trend, and yesterday introduced a family of hard drives EcoGreen F3, using a magnetic plate capacity of 500 GB. Winchester volume of 2 terabytes on four plates already offered at a price of $ 179, soon the company will make him hard disk capacity of 1.5 terabytes. Buffer size is 16 or 32 MB, but the spindle speed, it was decided to sacrifice for the sake of reducing energy consumption. Precise information about the characteristics of the manufacturer does not, but the similar products of other companies spindle speed is 5400 or 5900 rpm.

Hard disks are equipped with SATA-300 interface and support the technology NCQ. EcoTriangle concept involves the use in the manufacture of hard disks environmentally friendly materials, as well as low power consumption and noise. Compared with competitors, Winchester F3EG consumes 40% less energy in standby mode, and 10% less energy in the mode of reading or writing data. New Samsung adapted to work in conditions of unstable power supply. Sales have already begun, pricing Samsung is consistent with market offers of competitors.

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