Western Digital Starts Delivering 2.5-inch HDD WD Green

Western Digital, a successful supplier of HDD solutions and other consumer electronics, has started the delivery of its new compact hard drives series. Codenamed WD Green, this series boasts the maximal volume capacity (2 TB) in the 2.5-inch HDD market sector. The company claims that WD Green is a perfect match for PCs that require efficient additional storage disks, for external hard drives, as well as, for devices requiring practically enormous volume facilities. At the same time, WD Green is capable to ensure low working temperatures and noiseless operation.

One of the major peculiarities and attraction of WD Green series is its power-saving and eco-friendly nature. First of all, all the models embraced by the series consume little power as in operational mode, so on the startup activity. This provides for the substantial decrease of the system loading. Secondly, the production process is conducted with the observance of all existing ecological regulations. Hence, these HDDs do not contain any malignant elements, similar to lead or halogens.

Such approach to the production might become a basic incentive for the potential customers who take care of environment and their budget. Power-saving facilities of WD Green models allow for saving up to 40% of power.

As for the HDDs specifications, WD Green is delivered in two variants with 2TB and 1.5TB volume capacities. The products have got SATA 3Gb/sec interface and the maximal writing density (500 GB per wafer). In its turn, this promotes for the faster data reading facilities.