Hitachi Releases World's Most Energy-Efficient HDD

An anonymous reader writes "Today Hitachi released what they are calling the 'world's most energy efficient desktop hard drive' capable of reducing the active and idle power consumption by up to 40 percent over the previous generation." The drive will come in a range of flavors starting at 250GB and ranging to 500GB. Hitachi is promising these drives in high volume later this year.

okay.

[ritalinvillain]

but can they get rid of that horrible grinding noise?

That's nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

We have a closet full of hard drives, some of which have consumed zero Watts for about a decade.

How's that for energy efficient?

Re:okay.

[trolltalk.com]

> "but can they get rid of that horrible grinding noise?"

... its right after it stops making that grinding noise that it becomes super-energy-efficient!!! 0 watts!!!

Re:but will it run Linux?

[pclminion]

Will a hard drive run Linux... I quote Babbage: I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

High volume

[amRadioHed]

Hitachi is promising these drives in high volume later this year.

Damn, I was hoping that the drives would be quieter too.