News has been released about a new hard drive from Hitachi that claims to be the most energy efficient hard drive released to date. The new Deskstar P7K500 hard drive is going to have idle and active power consumption reductions by up to 40 percent. After implementing all the right technologies, Hitachi was able to receive an Energy Star 4.0 rating for the new hard drives. Specifications for the new hard drives are expected to come in the form of sizes ranging from 250GB to 500GB with a speed of 7200 rpm.

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