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Comments: 2 +-   Green Hard Drives Debut, WD's Green Power-> on Tuesday March 25 2008, @08:49PM MojoKid

Submitted by MojoKid on Tuesday March 25 2008, @08:49PM
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MojoKid writes "Eco-friendly or "green" products are becoming much more fashionable these days, especially in things like high-end electronics, where the impact on the environment and the disposal of these products is being regulated now by such things as the RoHS compliance standard. In addition, power consumption is also being looked at more closely for all the obvious reasons. Hard Drive manufacturer Western Digital recently took the initiative by being the first drive manufacture to produce and market a lower power version of their Caviar line of hard drives. The numbers here show that a green hard drive will probably only save an average end user about 10 watts in total system power consumption. However, from a data center perspective, where demand for storage is growing by the petabyte at an alarming rate, 10 watts per drive can certainly add up quick"
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  • So basically for the average user it is a costly and unnecessary upgrade? Save more energy by turning your computers off at night. NCIX has new "eco-friendly PC's", I wonder how many people even consider paying extra to "save" the environment.
    • That sarcasm doesn't hold water, sorry. 10 watts is actually about the averge total power consumption on average of most hard drives. In a data center environment with hundreds and thousands of drives, it could save a considerable amount. Other component manufacturers offer low power versions of things like processors etc. More of them should do the same. There are plenty of applications that don't need full throttle performance and these things will save money and energy there.
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