The Western Digital Caviar Green range of SATA hard drives provide energy efficient, low power memory storage for your computing needs. The hard drives are available in capacities up to 2 TB and can use up to 40% less energy than standard computing equivalents.

The Caviar Green SATA hard drives have been created by Western Digital. Their aim was to design a range of hard drives that are suitable for both business and home use that are cool, quiet and eco-friendly. These hard drives allow you to have the size of disk storage you require even up to the high capacity of 2 TB without using the high amounts of electricity standard hard drives consume. Many operating systems (such as Windows Vista) and software can be very storage intensive, causing many to find they do not have much room left on their hard drives for things such as photos, music or home videos. By providing hard drives that are up to 2 TB in size, the Western Digital Caviar Green drives provide plenty of space for modern computer usage.

The Caviar Green hard drives are suitable for users who require quiet systems. The main noise from computer use are the fans keeping the systems running at the correct temperatures. These hard drives run at cooler temperatures than standard hard drives and as such require substantially less assisted cooling by fans helping them to run quietly. The hard drives use up to 40% less electricity than a standard hard drive due to a number of systems designed to help then run as efficiently as possible. The IntelliPower system helps to carefully balance the spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver significant power savings while maintaining solid performance. The IntelliSeek system calculates the optimum seek speeds which help the hard drive work at a lower power consumption causing less noise and vibration. The hard drives also feature a low power spin up which allows them to draw less electricity in startup than standard drives which allows lower peak loads.

The Caviar Green hard drives each have a 32 MB cache and are available in capacities of 500 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. Western Digital believe the hard drives can save around 4-5 watts compared to standard hard drives, helping you to choose the size of hard drive you require with peace of mind that you are using a cooler, quieter hard drive that will consume less energy than a standard equivalent.

The Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives start at around $60 for a 1TB drive, and around $100 for a 2TB drive.

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Seagate have just launched a new range of Low Power Barracuda hard drives, in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB. The new hard drives report a 44% reduction in power consumption, as well as a very low noise level. The drives have been targeted at the desktop markets, such as external USB drives, external eSATA drives and low power PCS. The drives are also perfectly suited to the NAS (Network Attached Storage) markets too.

Since the drives are lower power, they typically run much cooler too. The lower operating temperature has the knock-on effect of a longer drive life and improved data access reliability. Seagate are also proud to be following their own green standards, such as being RoHS compliant, at least 70% recyclable materials in the hard drive when it reaches the end of its life, and built using eco-friendly processes.

Expect to see these drives hitting the PC shops pretty soon. They’ll be a touch more expensive compared to their energy-guzzling counter-parts, but they’ll pay for the extra premium within 6 to 12 months.

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External hard drives are really common now, and with eco-friendly hard drives coming on to the market with lower power consumption, it’s great to see an external hard drive with an eco-friendly design. The Simple Drive was designed by Anne Dickhoff in a recent design competition. The Simple Drive is made from recyclable plastic, and is easily disassembled when the hard drive reaches the end of its shelf-life.

Rather than use energy-consuming fans, the external hard drive uses air vents, allowing air to circulate around the drive to cool it down. The Simple Drive was also designed with usability in mind, with just 2 sockets. One is the USB socket, and the other is the AC power socket to power the drive.

With 1TB of storage, the drive will easily be useful for most people. Let’s just hope it reaches the market soon!

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The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II is a new energy-saving RAID hard drive, specifically targeted at the Mac and the Windows market. It features a FireWire 800 and eSATA port for fast data access, such as for video, animation and audio applications. The drive unit is designed to use Western Digital’s GreenPower drives, which use 30% less energy than conventional 3.5″ hard drives.

The drive features RAID 0 support, which stripes data across both internal hard drives. However, this has the disadvantage of being poor with fault tolerance. So if 1 hard drive dies, all the data is lost. However, RAID 0 is particularly fast, which is how the fast performance aspect of the drive unit is derived. However, if you want to mirror the disks with RAID 1 for strong fault tolerance, then the My Book will support that.

The WD My Book Studio Edition II (what a name! too long!) is user serviceable, so you can swap the drives in the unit whenever you like. The front of the unit also has a capacity guage, so you can see at a glance how much space is left on your storage system. You can purchase the My Book in 1TB and 2TB sizes, the latter being able to handle up to 240 hours of HD video.

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A company called fabrik has announced the release of an energy efficient green gadget, an external hard drive utilising a low power hard disk and a case made from recycled materials. The drive has no noisy fans (which also cuts down on power consumption), and the case is made using recycled aluminium to efficiently dissipate the heat. The case also features some fancy sustainable bamboo trim to give the drive a natural and organic look.

The hard drive is entirely useful too, coming in a 500GB model, compatible with both Windows and Mac and using Turbo USB 2.0 to make it up to 25% faster than conventional USB 2.0. On top of all that, the drive comes with completely eco-friendly packaging that can be recycled (i.e. no plastic!). Most external hard drives seem to come with tonnes of packaging, so any reduction in plastic packaging is great.

A neat looking drive, designed from the start with the environment in mind and energy efficient. Top stuff!

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