The climate change thing is big, everyone talks about it and many, many companies know that this trend is good for marketing at least. Hitachi, one of the worlds harddisk manufacturers is now introducing an energy efficient hard disk drive with a capacity of 250GB to 500GB and 7200 RPM.
The Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 saves up to 40% over the previous generation of Hitachi hard disks. The drive has theidle power utilization of 3.6 watts on the 250GB capacity model and 4.8 watts on models with capacities of 320GB or greater. Similarly, the P7K500 has reduced its active power requirements to 6.4 watts and 8.2 watts for its one- and two-disk models, respectively
That's nice right? And while you are of course happy for the environment, this also saves a little in the power bill and if this makes it to the laptop, you can use it longer, yeey!
