The economic downturn changed attitudes toward data storage products. According to IDC , more efficient storage technologies should allow power and cooling costs in data centres to level off by 2014
The new integrated SSD for ultra thin devices weighs less than one gram and offers up to 64GB capacity. The company said the products represent a new category of embedded drives that offer higher capacities and performance than existing storage technologies
The EcoGreen F4 hard drive is Samsung's most eco-friendly model, meeting all RoHS requirements. The new drive includes a 3.0 Gbit/sec SATA interface, Native Command Queuing and a 32MB buffer memory
The new drives will be used in PCs, laptops, video cameras and set top boxes. Hitachi said the hard drives are 26 per cent thinner than those found in most laptops and netbooks