Green Power From WD

Green Power Hard Drives From Western Digital

Green Drive The GreenPower drives are made available in desktop, enterprise, CE and external hard drive implementations in capacities from 320 GB upwards.

Green power claims are impressive: they boast power savings of 4-5 watts over competitors' drives of similar sizes without suffering any degradation in performance.

This 40% power saving reduces CO2 omissions by 60kg over a year which is the equivalent of taking a car off the road for approximately a fortnight.

Naturally there is an associated cost benefit to the user, looking to be around $10/computer/year. Whilst this is small change to users with one or two machines around the home, the product's savings may turn heads in enterprise applications where many hundreds of drives will be running constantly throughout the year.

The Technology

IntelliPower™

A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and cache size designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.

IntelliPark™
Delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle to reduce aerodynamic drag.

IntelliSeek™
Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

IntelliPark™
This automatically parks the drive heads during idle periods, decreasing aerodynamic drag and reducing overall power consumpsion.

Green WD

Environmental sustainability is important to WD. One of the best ways WD can make a positive impact on the environment is to help its customers to offer products that consume less electricity and generate less heat. WD is committed to helping customers deploy leading-edge hard drive technology to reduce power consumption.

Protecting and Preserving Our Environment

All of our manufacturing facilities in Asia have environmental management systems in place which are ISO 14001 certified. Each facility has a comprehensive policy and set of supporting procedures addressing environmental permits, pollution prevention, hazardous substances, wastewater and solid wastes, airborne emissions and product content. Our policies express a commitment to continued improvement, and to this end, we review the status of our environmental management systems at least annually.