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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Western Digital today has announced its WD RE2-GP drive that offers, “data-hungry organizations significant power savings and lower cost of ownership compared to competitors’ standard enterprise-class drives.” With a 40% cut in power consumption, the super dense drives not only will pack all your movies, songs, and documents in a green way, but it’ll also keep your Mac Pro or PC cooler. When this drive makes its way into servers running iTunes Store and other such data hungry needs, it’ll also help the nations data centers reduce it consumption of power. At $4.5 billion and using 1.5% of the nations power alone, the RE2-GP is a good thing all around!
“WD’s RE2-GP enterprise line of hard drives allow customers to expand their storage needs, reduce their total cost of ownership, and improve the environment all at the same time,” said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD’s enterprise business unit. “Energy efficiency is a huge concern for our customers. GreenPower drives are enabling them to meet their customer’s system requirements for storage capacity, reliability, performance, and cost by integrating an enterprise-class drive that simply consumes far less power.”
Western Digital has priced the drives at (MSRP) $149.99 for 500 GB, $249.99 for 750 GB, and my next buy, $349.99 for the 1 TB. Mmm, can’t wait to get ‘em.
Check out WDC’s web site for direct ordering.
