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

Western Digital managed to come up with a new two-platter 640GB, 3.5-inch hard drive, which is a lot cooler, quieter and much more economical. Oh I missed the fact that they are much faster? Dubbed WD Caviar SE16, it has two 320GB platters, gets up to 3GBps and should be available from today for $140.

via Gearlog