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."

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Excellent news, my friend. Your advertisement of the power of summation are awe-inspiring! If I may be so bold as to continue your brazen line of reasoning, were you to find an additional 20W of power savings on top of your claimed 40W savings, you will have saved a grand total of 60W. Furthermore, though this is a difficult concept for the layman, if you introduce an additional 10W of savings, your total will now have reached 70W.