Emailing "Western Digital Debuts Green Hard Drives"
Not willing to cede the
green storage crown to Hitachi, Western Digital announced its own line of power sipping enterprise-class hard drives (WD RE2) under the
Enterprise GreenPower banner. Available in 500 GB, 750 GB and 1 TB capacities, the drives consume significant lesser amounts of power than the competition.
How much less?
Fully appreciating the storage-energy dilemma, each WD RE2-GP hard drive consumes an average of 4-5 watts less than competitive hard drives, making it possible for energy-conscious enterprise customers to build servers and storage subsystems with higher capacities, consistent performance, and assured reliability, all while promoting energy conservation. By WD estimates, under typical workloads, the new WD RE2-GP drives will save more than $10 per drive per year in electricity costs. Consequently, a large data center with 10,000 drives can save $100,000 in annual energy costs.
Western Digital has even put up one of those
web-based calculators that are all the rage lately. Though this one takes it upon itself to resize the browser in Firefox (new windows open in another tab), which is one of my biggest Web peeves.
Thanks Dan!