At the given moment hard disks with form factor 3.5 inch and (1000 Gb) volume are proposed by hitachi , Seagate and Samsung company. Now remain to see the 1000 GB hard disk from western digital . Yesterday this producer announced the hard disks caviar GP, which includes models with volume 1 TB .
To compensate the long announcement preparation , western digital talked about its new to technology greenPower, which decreases the energy consumption by 4-5 W in comparison with hard disks with analogous capacity. This power savings seems low at the first impression, but during one year operation , one hard disk series GP allow to economize several dollars . The volumes of dioxide carbon ejections in the atmosphere will be simultaneously reduced. :-)
The technology intelliPower changes the hard disk rotation speed in the range from 5400 to 7200 rp/min , so simultaneously this technology reduces the energy consumption level , noise and vibration . The technology intelliPark decreases the energy consumption due to heads unloading in idle time.
The first 1TB hard disk from western digital series GP will be released in this month ( external version My book) . The internal hard disks WD caviar GP with analogous capacity will appear during August, it will be equipped with 16 mb buffer and SATA-300 interfaces . To the end of the third quarter WD promises to begin the deliveries of hard disks series RE -Gp and AV-GP, which will exist in models with volume from 320 Gb to 1 Tb. In a word, if you want to save some electric power and to improve the ecological situation - you have to look at western digital hard disks with GP suffix . Related Products :
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