Tree Hugging Hard Drives!

[robodude666]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Interesting, but how much power does the typical HDD usually require anyway? Probably not much. A savings of 4-5 watts isn't really very much unless you have like 5 of them.

The average hard drive uses about 8-9w. The WD GP will save about 2-4w of energy.

Western Digital is marketing the Caviar GP as a Desktop drive, but it goes up to 1TB in capacity. Large companies need a ton of storage. If they use say 50TB of hard drives, the GP will result in a savings of 100-200w. Ehh, its not a lot really but it makes you feel better for using less energy and making the world a cleaner place =). But, if a company needs 1000 of these bad boys for 1PB (very hard to imagine what 1PB of storage looks like o.o) then thats 2-4kW of energy saved. Per year, .2kW or 2kW can add up to a large amount of money which would yield higher profits because costs are down. And if your companies is public that makes share holders happy

-robodude666