GreenPower Hard Disk
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 Jul 26 2007, 08:24 AM, updated 19y ago
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http://www.wdc.com/en/company/greenpower.asp
WD's new GreenPower hard drive family will offer capacities of 320GB to 1TB, and the company boasts that it can cut power consumption by up to 40%. The drives have a variable spindle speed of 5400RPM to 7200RPM, 16MB of cache, and support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer speeds. |
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Jul 26 2007, 08:29 AM
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less electricity mean less heat
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Jul 26 2007, 08:58 AM
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the onli thing i can see is they vary the spindle speed to save power. and spins up to spindle as needed.
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Jul 26 2007, 09:11 AM
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less heat and less transfer speed?
issit worth it? |
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Jul 26 2007, 09:23 AM
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Saves on your electricity bill if you leave your PC on 24/7 to torrent.
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Jul 26 2007, 11:45 AM
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Nowadays every single electronic parts also move towards enerygy efficient.
 Just worry about the cost of the HDD compare to current model. |
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Jul 26 2007, 12:14 PM
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But I'm quite sure sooner or later it'll be in mainstream already.
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Jul 27 2007, 11:12 AM
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I remember overseas have a 80 plus program or something like dat for HDD to save power.
No surprise that WD is doing the same for Asia's market. I support!  |
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