| Happy Hard Drive News |
| Written by Hank Green | ||
| Friday, 20 July 2007 | ||
 Kanguru has just released the first ever hard-drive marketed directly at EcoGeeks. I gotta say...I want one. The drives have three power modes that allow for an energy savings of up to 75% and the drives are fully RoHS compliant (no hazardous substances.) Of course, when they say that they're "the most efficient external harddrives" that isn't technically true. Using a 2.5 inch external laptop harddrive will use far less energy, and it's relatively easy to create one out of a casing and an old laptop harddrive. Which is fine if you only need 40 to 80 gigs. But the Kanguru goes all the way up to 750 gigs...($350.) For the EcoGeek who just can't find enough space for all his trillions of ebooks, the Kanguru Eco Drive line is a great choice. Via Engadget (h/t Luke)
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very interesting!
written by Cynthia , July 21, 2007
RoHS
written by Matt Fischer , July 21, 2007
RoHS stands for Reduction of Hazardous Substances, not "elimination" so the above statement is probably not 100% accurate. It is certainly better than a non-RoHS drive however!
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written by Tobias , July 21, 2007
I thought I read on engadget or crunchgear that the power modes only work with windows (but I could be wrong)
$350
written by Lee Wong Seoul , July 21, 2007
You can buy a decent laptop at $400..Spending $350 for an HD sounds too much. Thanks for the info ...
750 Gigs
written by Hank , July 22, 2007
For 750 gigabytes, $350 is fairly reasonable for an external harddrive. Obviously, this would be for a fairly specialized application, but for $400 laptop, you should probably expect about 40 gigabytes. Perfectly fine for most applications...but woefully inadequate for others. The 80 gig ecodrive is about $100 bucks.
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written by Rob , July 23, 2007
Once flash drive technology improves tradition hard drives will be obsolete both in speed and energy consumption.
Jumping on ship
written by Luke , July 23, 2007
It seems Western Digital followed suit. Their 1TB drive runs 13.5 watts while their new GreenPower drives cuts that number by more than 5 watts.
Forgot the link
written by Luke , July 23, 2007 | ||
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