Seagate Ships Barracuda “Green” Desktop HDD
Green but slow (5,900rpm)
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 15, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Seagate Technology LLC announced the availability of the Barracuda Green
hard drive, an eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive for low-power
personal computers, multi-drive home networking systems and external PC
storage.
The Barracuda Green hard drive, formerly Barracuda LP, combines the speed of 5900 RPM with Seagate’s SmartAlign technology to deliver performance. SmartAlign
technology enables all the benefits of the new 4K sector standard while
simplifying drive installation by eliminating the need for utilities
often required to ensure optimum drive performance. The
cool-running, lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive delivers
whisper-quiet acoustics and helps reduce system costs associated with
the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry
systems.
Barracuda Green hard drives also support
Seagate Think Green programs for a greener world:
- 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive can be recycled.
- All Barracuda Green drives use low halogen components to reduce the negative environmental impacts related to these substances.
- Barracuda Green is designed and built to the highest environmental standards.
"Not only do Barracuda Green drives offer environmental improvements
in power consumption and material usage, but these drives are also among
the first hard drives from Seagate to offer SmartAlign technology," said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president of Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management. "This
is important because the industry is transitioning to 4K sector
formatting called Advanced Format to improve capacities and maintain
strong error correction. However, the transition to Advanced Format
without SmartAlign technology can be complex and require additional
integration steps and software utilities to avoid performance
degradation. SmartAlign technology removes these concerns and makes this
transition virtually invisible for our customers."
The Barracuda Green hard drive, offered in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB, is shipping to the worldwide distribution channel.
Comments
These HDDs are not speedy but will be probably one of the cheapest storage memory in $/GB. That's why you could consider them as a good solution for archiving of massive data because there is no other media than can really guarantees long-term retention. But you will have to transfer their contents each three to five years on other drives because the annualized failure rate is specified at 0.34%, according to the manufacturer.
Power published by Seagate in operating mode is 5.8W for the 2TB Barracuda Green model and 7.15W for the 1.5TB unit, both of them with three platters.
WD is also in green HDDs. Its 2TB Caviar WD20EARS is announced at 6W, the figure being the same for the 1.5TB WD15EARS and the 3TB WD30EZRSDTL.
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