
Green?
Surely the benefit of low power consumption in laptop hard drives is about extending battery life, not about being eco-friendly?
Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies division today punted what it claimed is the industry's least power-hungry mobile hard drive in its capacity class. The Travelstar 5K500.B is a half-a-terabyte, dual-platter boy that packs its 500GB of raw storage into the laptop-friendly 2.5in form-factor. It runs at 5400rpm. Touting the …