Western Digital Ships Second Generation Green Hard Drives

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Western Digital just announed an update in GreenPower technology, with the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 1 TB drive. This new drive is a 333/GB per-platter hard drive with 32 MB cache. WD’s latest WD Caviar Green hard drives consume up to 20 percent less power and offer a 10 percent increase in performance over the previous version. The MSRP for the WD Caviar Green 1 TB hard drives (model WD10EADS) is $219.00 USD and are available now.

As an innovative leader in green storage technology, WD has ramped up its successful GreenPower technology-based hard drives to greater than 10 percent of its 3.5-inch hard drive shipments in the initial twelve months of production, making low-power technologies one of WD’s fastest growing segments and WD Caviar Green one of the most successful new products in the company’s recent history. WD’s latest WD Caviar Green hard drives consume up to 20 percent less power and offer a 10 percent increase in performance over the previous version , while continuing to provide the market with hard drives enabling quieter and cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices.

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