Thread: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB

The storage market in recent times is focusing heavily on new solid state disk solutions, which provide very high performance against a very low power consumption and a very low possibility of rupture in the absence of mechanical motion.The only Achilles heel of these new solutions, however, is determined by the very production cost per GB, currently offering solutions of up to 256GB capacity with a purchase price very high for most users.

Here is that many manufacturers such as Wester Digital offer mechanical solutions for high-capacity storage solutions, keeping an eye on consumption.At the moment all the drive manufacturers in the engineering of the only solutions are trying to create more environmentally friendly components are used as components or as current consumption.



A good example of records with good performance with a low power consumption are the solutions of Western Digital Caviar Green. In our review today we have the opportunity to experience the ultimate solution of WD Green features a generous 2TeraByte, 32MB cache and a rotation speed of 7200Girimin.To reduce the possible power consumption WD has adopted a solution with 4 turntables 500GB instead of the 3 dishes 1TB solution, while maintaining a rotation of 7200girimin to ensure good performance.

All this because a component that consumes little but that does not offer decent performance and therefore can not be considered efficient "green".The truth, however, is that no piece of hardware may actually be considered "green"because of the great expense of natural resources and the abundant amount of waste produced during the production phase.