Samsung Announces a 1TB "Green" Hard Drive

Everyone's into green, and companies are fighting to produce and promote green products. Enter Samsung, who on Thursday announce a one-terabyte hard drive that it said provides a 15% power savings compared to other low-powered 1TB hard drives and a 50% improvement over traditional 1TB hard drives.

The EcoGreen F1 hard drive has a 5400RPM rotational speed, 3.0Gbps SATA interface, native command queuing features and a 32MB buffer memory.

In a press release, T.J. Lee, vice president of sales & marketing for Samsung Electronics' Storage Division said:

"Since 2003, Samsung's hard disk drives have complied with the (RoHS) restriction of hazardous substances directive as well as the (TBBP-A) brominated flame retardant restriction. The EcoGreen product line is designed to meet consumer demand for eco-friendly, high-performance devices with an optimized cost of ownership advantage."

According to Samsung, it will sell for $199 and will release in Q2 2008. That doesn't give Samsung much time as we are close to June, right?