http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/02/wd-greenpower-energy-efficient-hard-drives/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:29:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/02/wd-greenpower-energy-efficient-hard-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-51206 Angel Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:36:28 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/02/wd-greenpower-energy-efficient-hard-drives/#comment-51206 Solid state memory drives will not take the place of big, high capacity hard drives in data centers. These drives could have a huge impact if Google used them in their data centers. Solid state memory drives will not take the place of big, high capacity hard drives in data centers. These drives could have a huge impact if Google used them in their data centers.

]]> http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/02/wd-greenpower-energy-efficient-hard-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-50068 Orrin Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:20:30 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/02/wd-greenpower-energy-efficient-hard-drives/#comment-50068 Samsung and Fujitsu has 32GB NAND, solid state memory drives selling in laptops for a while now (http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/23/samsungs-q30-ssd-with-32gb-flash-drive-on-sale-in-june/) ... you can buy them in Dell computers. NAND drives have higher energy efficiency then disk-based drives because they don't have to spin disks and move a read/write head (http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1013-tina_butler.html). Samsung and Fujitsu has 32GB NAND, solid state memory drives selling in laptops for a while now (http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/23/samsungs-q30-ssd-with-32gb-flash-drive-on-sale-in-june/) … you can buy them in Dell computers. NAND drives have higher energy efficiency then disk-based drives because they don’t have to spin disks and move a read/write head (http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1013-tina_butler.html).

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