Western Digital Touts New 'Green' Drives

An anonymous reader writes "Western Digital today announced the availability of a new line of serial ATA drives that are supposed to use 4 to 5 watts less than other competitive drives from Hitachi GST, Fujitsu and Seagate. The new "GreenPower" line comes in 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities. Western Digital says it achieves better power performance by balancing the platter's spin speed in order to make it more efficient, by optimizing seek speeds and by parking the read heads when the disk is idle, according to a Computerworld story."

Comments

bandwagon labelling for the gullible

[petes_PoV]

Ooooh, it's green! It must be "good"

let's have green CPU fans, green memory, green chassis (made from wood?), green power plugs, green keyboards, green mice, green screens of death, green .... oh h*ll, I can't go on.

This is just a marketing ploy to try to differentiate the manufacturer from the competition.

If you want to save energy, turn the wretched thing off

Re:No rotational speed spec.

[Pulse_Instance]

Drop down lists are hard before coffee, is there any other way to undo a bad moderation with the new system?