Western Digital jump on the band wagon with GreenPower

On Monday Western Digital announced the launch of a new range of 3.5 inch hard drives that consume up to 40% less power than a standard drive. Entitled GreenPower the new drives range in size from 320 GB to 1 TB with the first of the range to be the 1 TB Caviar GP shipping in July.

According to the blurb from WD

By WD estimates, in certain applications, the new GreenPower platform can save greater than $10 per drive per year in electricity costs. For example, a data center with 10,000 drives can save $100,000 in annual energy costs, and reduce CO2 emission by 600 metric tons – the equivalent of taking almost 400 cars off the road for a year.

However a data center may be more concerned with performance than power savings and/or the environment, but we shall see. Certainly for the individual user the GreenPower range may give them that planet-saving feel-good effect when the drive whirrs into action.

Source: Western Digital

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