Western Digital Corp has launched its new WD RE4-GP hard drive with the next-generation 2 TB capacity.
Combining industry-leading 64 MB cache, dual processors, and increased areal density, WD RE4-GP hard drives yield twice the processing power resulting in as much as 25% performance improvement over the previous generation.
The GreenPower technology platform of WD is the first 3.5-inch hard drive platform designed with power savings as the primary attribute. These drives decrease average drive power consumption by up to 50 percent over currently available competitors drives and are ultra-cool and quiet, all while delivering solid performance.
The new WD RE4-GP 2 TB hard drive offers enterprise-class reliability for storage-hungry applications, such as cloud-computing infrastructure, large-scale data centers, data archive and tape replacement systems, commercial video surveillance and digital video editing houses, with an energy- and money-saving solution that fights the challenges facing the enterprise IT sector limited available drive slots, maximum capacity required, and limited power and budget.
WD RE4-GP 2 TB drives are reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time before failure) in high duty cycle environments.
Mr. Sharad Srivastava, Director Sales (India & South Asia), Western Digital said, "Every data center in operation worldwide contributes to CO2 emissions, and storage systems are at the core of these data centers. Many storage applications are a great fit for high-capacity, low power-consuming disk drives like the WD RE4-GP 2 TB that help to reduce power consumption and positively impact the environment."
WD enables energy-conscious enterprise customers to build servers and storage subsystems with higher capacities, consistent performance, and assured reliability, all while promoting energy conservation.
Srivastava added, "Energy efficiency is a primary concern for our customers who continue to look for ways to reduce their carbon footprint without compromising reliability or performance. WDs RE-GP drives enable them to meet their customers system requirements for storage capacity, reliability, performance and cost by integrating an enterprise-class drive that simply consumes less power than traditional hard drives."
WD RE4-GP hard drives with GreenPower technology deliver exceptional power conservation, run ultra-cool and quiet, while providing solid performance.
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