Western Digital Corp. has announced its new environmentally friendly, energy-conscious GreenPower™ family of WD® enterprise hard drive products. The new WD RE2 GreenPower (GP) family offers capacities of 500 gigabytes (GB), 750 GB and one terabyte (TB), and provides data-hungry organizations with a money-saving solution to combat the challenges faced in the enterprise IT sector, such as, total available drive slots, maximum capacity, and available power and budget. Addressing a growing high-capacity enterprise market, WD RE2 drives are reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failure) in high duty cycle environments.
"Delivering up to 40 percent savings in hard drive power consumption, Western Digital's new RE2-GP hard drives are an excellent choice for customers deploying Rackable Systems' newest generation of Eco-Logical storage systems - enabling even greater efficiency and performance," said Tony Gaughan, chief products officer of Rackable Systems.
WD RE2-GP hard drives are designed with power savings as the primary attribute. They offer massive capacity with significant power savings and lower total cost of ownership compared to other competitive enterprise-class drives.
"Verari Systems is dedicated to protecting the environment by providing data center solutions that are engineered for maximum power efficiency," said David Driggers, chief technology officer of Verari Systems. "By utilizing WD's latest GreenPower technology, Verari is able to provide enterprise customers with a solution that delivers one of the most energy-efficient systems available today."
Fully appreciating the storage-energy dilemma, each WD RE2-GP hard drive consumes an average of 4-5 watts less than competitive hard drives, making it possible for energy-conscious enterprise customers to build servers and storage subsystems with higher capacities, consistent performance, and assured reliability, all while promoting energy conservation. By WD estimates, under typical workloads, the new WD RE2-GP drives will save more than $10 per drive per year in electricity costs. Consequently, a large data center with 10,000 drives can save $100,000 in annual energy costs.