Seagate announces new green desktop drives

21.04.2009
Seagate Corp. Tuesday announced a new family of lower-power 3.5-in desktop hard-disk drives the company said have the highest performance and best power efficiency in their class.

The new Barracuda LP drive series come in 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities and run at an industry-first 5900-rpm spindle speed. Most consumer-class 3.5-inch desktop drives spin at 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm.

Seagate said the middle-of-the-road spindle speed approach offers 25% less power than standard 5400 rpm, 3.5-inch desktop drives, and up to 50% less power than 7200-rpm drives. The new Barracuda LP drives use 3 watts of power while idle, and 5.6 watts when operating.