“Western Digital divides their internal hard drives into three distinct families – the WD Caviar Blue for their basic hard drives, the WD Caviar Green for their quieter, cooler hard drives and the WD Caviar Black for their performance-grade hard drives.According to Western Digital, Caviar Green hard disk drives offer an average power saving of 4-5 watts over their competitors, a feat that they claim is equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by 13.8 kg per year. Of course, that’s a mere drop in the ocean but if you can help save the environment while you work or play on your computer, why not?”
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- WD Caviar Black 2TB & VelociRaptor 600GB @ SPCR
- Synology Diskstation DS411+ NAS @ The Inquirer
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- Icy Dock MB994SP-4S Quad Bay SATA Mobile Rack for 5.25″ Device Bay @ Hi Tech Legion
- Seagate GoFlex Home 2TB @ AnandTech
- ineo Technology I-NA214U Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Module @ Tweaktown
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- LIAN LI EX-10Q USB 3.0 External 2.5″ Hard Drive @ TechwareLabs
- Patriot Xporter Rage 32GB USB Flash drive @ Rbmods
WD keeps the platter happily alive with their high density green series
If you have made the switch to an SSD but find yourself a little short on storage space and want a large format disk to store your important, but not frequently accessed files? Are you enjoying the quiet of not having a platter based drive and maybe even a little smug at the power savings? Try Western Digital’s Caviar Green (Advanced Format) 2 TB, at only $110 ($0.18/GB) it won’t destroy your bank account and was designed with power savings and quiet operation in mind. As you can see from the review at Tech ARP, the performance is not hurt by those considerations.