What Will You Sacrifice to Get a "Green" Hard Drive?
Days after the Environmental Protection Agency launched its Energy Star 4.0 , the energy-savings initiatives are flowing in. Western Digital threw itself into the ring with the announcement of its Caviar GreenPower hard disk drives.
According to Western Digital, the impetus for change began with Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a consortium of technology companies who've banded together to reduce the PC's power consumption by 50 percent by the year 2010. The group was started this year by Google and Intel.
"When you're talking about those kinds of cuts, you have to go beyond just the CPU and power supply; you have to get into the storage side, too," explains Ted Deffenbaugh, director of product marketing for desktop drives at Western Digital.
