A new product in the My Book Studio line has been released by Western Digital. As expected we’re getting two RAID 0 drives in a quad-interface external case that has got itself a new design and upgraded Green Power units drives to run cooler and to consume less power. There are good things for Mac users, too, because the new My Book Studio Edition II is HFS+ formatted.

It’s already available with 1TB and 2TB space for $349 and $599 respectively.

Press release

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