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Hitachi have recently announced the Ultrastar C10K300 6Gbps SAS HDD with a power consumption of only 3.1W in idle and 6.1W in operational mode. It has 64MB of buffer memory, a 10,000rpm speed for only 29dB.
Available soon these HDDs will be sold in 147GB and 300GB versions.

via Techfresh

Ok yes there are 2TB hard drives now but the new Samsung 1.5TB EcoGreen F2EG hard drive has a few tricks up its sleeve. Thanks to its EcoTriangle technology it will use around 40% less power in idle mode and 45% in read/write mode than most normal HDDs. It will also give off less heat and lower noise levels.

The F2EG family of drives is currently being shipped to major OEM businesses. The 1.5TB HDD is available at $149.00 MSRP.

via Physorg

Ok the video is a bit cheesy and annoying but Samsung have had a viral video created to show of their Solid State Drives. Using 24 SSDs in Raid (RAID 0?) they managed to achieve 2GB a second throughput. In comparison your average HD will likely have speeds of around 100MBs a second.

If you are a PC enthusiast and have more money than sense then the OCZ Z Drive is quite likely the thing for you.

This is a PCIe enclosure that'll contain 1TB worth of SSD storage with maximum read rates of up to 600MB/sec and maximum write speeds of up to 500MB/sec whith a sustained write speed of 400MB/sec.

This device will contain four 256GB MLC-based OCZ SSDs along with 256MB of ECC DDR2 RAM.

It can also be set up as a slave drive or a boot drive and OCZ are hoping to have a 4TB version by the end of the year!

via Engadget

Micron is starting production of a new line of solid state drives (SSD) that offer much faster data rates than were previously possible. The new drives are capable of 250MB/s data transfer and come in two lines, an enterprise-class RealSSD P200 and the client-focused RealSSD C200. The company hopes the increased speed and reduced power consumption of the new drives will encourage their adoption by the server market. “We are seeing SSD interest in a variety of applications where historically hard disk drives have reigned,” said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron.

“For many, the most logical place is in notebook computers, but there is incredible value for SSDs in enterprise server systems.” The P200 range come in sizes from 16GB to 128GB in 2.5 inch modules, with the C200 ranging from 16GB to 256GB, and comes in 2.5 and 1.5 inch modules for better take-up by notebook manufacturers. The company is claiming that the P200 drives are 10 times faster than traditional platter drives, use a tenth of the power and last about four times as long.