Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives

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 quickly."

Comments

Re:Don't your friend know...

[aquarajustin]

Well, my friend certainly knows a couple of things:
1. How to use better grammar than you.
2. Not to assume the operating systems that others are using.
3. That again, the spin down time for the GP drives can not be controlled by the user (short of writing a script that pings your hard drive every 30 seconds).

Feel free to mod me down -1, Insolent

Re:...mean Much Lower Noise!

[cbreaker]

It doesn't take a big studio to put a computer in the next room, whatever that room might be. A closet, even. If you're doing it from home, chances are pretty f'ing good you have more than one room. A few extension cables and you're good.

Does being poor also make you stupid?