Western Digital: Caviar GP and Re2 GP both at 1GB and saving energy
Posted March 29th, 2008 by Alex Ion
A mix between new hardware and “going green” is always a good thing. Western Digital managed to come out with two GreenPower hard drives that are supposed to be cool, quiet and eco-friendly: the 1TB Caviar GP and the 1TB RE2-GP.
“WD’s GreenPower platform is the first 3.5-inch hard drive platform designed with power savings as the primary attribute. GreenPower drives from WD deliver average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over competitors’ drives, ultra-cool, quiet operation and solid performance.”
They both work on a SATA 3Gbps interface and have a 16MB buffer. The Caviar consumes 7.5Watts when working and 4 Watts when idle while the Re2 version consumes 7.4 Watts, respectively 4.0 Watts. Both have a stand-by power consumption of 0.97 Watts.
The 1TB Caviar GP has a 3 years warrany while the 1TB RE2-GP has 5.
via HotHardware
