Western Digital Caviar GP (Source: Western Digital)
Western Digital GreenPower reduces power consumption by up to 40%
Western Digital today announced a new line of hard drives with greater emphasis on power saving – GreenPower. Western Digital has new GreenPower drives for desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external applications. The new GreenPower drives claim power consumption reductions of up to 40%, resulting in $10 per drive, per year savings in actual power costs.
Western Digital also claims best-in-class operating temperatures and acoustics while yielding four-to-five watts of power savings compared to standard drivers. The power consumption reductions can translate to reduced CO2 emissions up to 49KG per drive, per year. Western Digital claims the reduced CO2 emissions is comparable to taking a car off the road for two weeks, based on average daily CO2 emissions.
New technologies endow the GreenPower hard disks to reduce power consumption. WD’s new IntelliPower technology determines the hard drive’s spin speed, transfer rate and cache to maintain power savings without sacrificing performance. IntelliPower technology varies the spin speed between 5400-to-7200RPM. IntelliPark technology reduces aerodynamic drag and lowers power consumption by unloading the heads in idle states. IntelliSeek technology reduces power consumption, noise and vibration by maintaining optimum seek speeds.
Western Digital designates all GreenPower drives with a GP suffix. GreenPower Caviar GP, RE-GP and AV-GP models will arrive in capacities of 320GB-to-1TB.
The first GreenPower drive will ship this month as an external drive. The new Western Digital My Book range will feature the new WD Caviar GP 1TB hard drive. WD Caviar GP 1TB drives for desktops won’t ship until August, while RE-GP and AV-GP models will ship within Q3’2007.
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