Storage Solutions seagate ships industry’s highest performance “green†desktop hard drive

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Seagate SHIPS INDUSTRY’S HIGHEST PERFORMANCE “GREEN” DESKTOP HARD DRIVE

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Barracuda Green features Seagate SmartAlign technology for seamless transition to 4K sector desktop hard drives​

MUMBAI — December 15, 2010— Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced the availability of the Barracuda® Green hard drive, the industry’s highest performance 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 industry’s highest spin speed (5900 RPM) with Seagate’s SmartAlign™ technology to deliver best-in-class 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 Greenâ„¢ programs for a greener more sustainable 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 Rajesh Khurana, Seagate country manager for India and SAARC. “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 now shipping to the worldwide distribution channel.
 
There you go.. Its RPM rating is lowered down to 5900RPM. Generally, the spinning speed is associated with the performance of hard drives. Also faster the hard drive spins, the more energy it uses.

So, what they really did is : reduced speed which indirectly lead to more power savings over regular hard drives, :-/ which makes them indirectly less-suitable to high performance gaming rig. I guess, they'll be only suitable for applications/work that require more stability and not high level of performance like external PC storage.
 
Usually such drives are mostly picked for either being low cost and for secondary storage. Once these land in retail and they are priced nicely, it would go head to head with WD green but AFAIK newer green drives have eventual death issue? Fah33m is still going to that IIMN.
 
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