Western Digital Launches Efficient GreenPower Drives, From 320GB to 1TB

Like added companies acquisitive to casting a greenish hue on whirring machinery, Western Digital today apparent GreenPower, a band of centralized harder drives that focus on efficiency. That is, they use 40% beneath ability than the antagonism acknowledgment to some adorned engineering.

The 3.5" SATA drives for desktops, the WD Caviar GP series, are now available, alignment from 320GB to 1TB. The columnist absolution claims that switching to a GreenPower 1TB is "the agnate of demography your car off the alley for 14 canicule anniversary year." The added believable affirmation is that you will save "up to $10 per drive per year in electricity costs." So it about pays for itself, in, like, 30 or 40 years.

Key features:

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned antithesis of circuit speed, alteration amount and accumulation admeasurement advised to bear both cogent ability accumulation and solid performance.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower ability consumption, babble and vibration. View audience >

IntelliPark - Delivers lower ability burning by automatically auction the active during abandoned to abate aerodynamic drag.

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - Employ PMR technology to accomplish even greater areal density.

StableTrac - The motor shaft is anchored at both ends to abate system-induced beating and balance platters for authentic tracking, during apprehend and address operations.

From the columnist release:

WD'S New GreenPower Harder Drives Abate Activity Consumption, Helping Protect the Environment

Company's Aboriginal One Terabyte Drive Enables Up To 40% Harder Drive Ability Accumulation for Desktop, Enterprise, CE and WD Branded Customers

LAKE FOREST, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today appear a new environmentally affable GreenPower(TM) ancestors of WD(R) desktop, enterprise, CE and alien harder drive products. The new GreenPower (GP) ancestors will address in capacities from 320 gigabytes (GB) to one terabyte (TB), and will save up to 40% in harder drive ability consumption, or as abundant as $10 per drive per year.

Based on all-encompassing chump ascribe against acknowledging ENERGY STAR 4.0 acquiescence and accumulation the latest in engineering technology, WD has delivered the aboriginal 3.5-inch harder drive belvedere advised with ability accumulation as the primary attribute. The GreenPower ancestors gives barter added choices if it comes to purchasing harder drives. The antecedent drive that will yield advantage of WD's new GreenPower technology is the WD Caviar GP. The WD Caviar GP 1TB harder drive will aboriginal address in July in the My Book(TM) ambit of accumulator appliances, with 1TB desktop approach shipments afterward in August.

GreenPower versions of WD RE action drives and WD AV customer electronics drives will address in aggregate aural agenda Q3.

ENERGY STAR 4.0 accretion systems are advised to accredit organizations to abbreviate their carbon brand as able-bodied as apprehend cogent accumulation in electricity costs. By WD estimates, in assertive applications, the new GreenPower belvedere can save greater than $10 per drive per year in electricity costs. For example, a abstracts centermost with 10,000 drives can save $100,000 in anniversary activity costs, and abate CO2 discharge by 600 metric tons—the agnate of demography about 400 cars off the alley for a year.