Western Digital Caviar Green series HDD gets greener

Western Digital has updated and shipped its Eco-friendly Green Caviar drive better than ever. The second generation WD’s Caviar Green hard drives now consume 20 percent less power yet deliver 10 percent more in performance over the previous version.

The industrial most power-efficient, coolest and quietest 3.5-inch drives now feature a mind-bending 333GB/Platter, a significant areal density increase from last model of 250GB/Platter. Memory cache of 32MB also added along with WD’s IntelliPower and IntelliSeek helps to improve the speed of the new Caviar Green. The new series offer storage capacity from 500GB, 640GB, 750GB to 1TB. Available immediately, the 1TB model will cost you $219