Samsung releases high-density HDD [F4EG]

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Samsung releases high-density HDD [F4EG]

Post by florinp3 » Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:21 am

Samsung releases high-density HDD

[quote]Samsung has released the F4EG which it claims is the world’s highest-density, environmentally friendly hard disk drive (HDD) for the desktop market.

The EcoGreen F4 features a 2-terabyte capacity with 667GB on each of its three disks.
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Samsung's very chilly IC Park, who is the vice president, Storage Sales, said that with its three disks and advanced technology, the F4EG drive was 19 percent better in standby time performance and had 23 percent lower power consumption in standby mode than the previous four-disk model, the F3EG.

The F4EG uses a 3.0Gbps SATA interface, Native Command Queuing and a 32MB buffer memory. The 3.5â€

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