Is your hard drive full? Have you backed up your computer lately?  It is time to look for a hard drive that stores lots of data but just sips power.  Buy one larger than your needs, so you do not waste money and resources buying another one next year.

The Western Digital My Passport a low cost eco-friendly green, energy-efficient External hard drive that is powered by the USB connector.  It uses a small 2.5in laptop drive to save on power. No need for a phantom power hungry power brick. These green hard drive can save up to $14 per year in electricity costs depending on the power-on-hours and power supply efficiency. This adds up fast in businesses.

Western Digital also makes a line of Green internal hard drives that spin slower and hence use less power. We are using them and find them reliable.

The Western Digital 1TB Green Power Serial ATA Hard drive is a low cost eco-friendly, energy-efficient 1TB internal hard drive. I have one in my computer. It is fast and quiet and most importantly energy efficient.  Western digital also makes an External 1TB Green Power Hard drive.

“GreenPower saves you 4-5 watts of electricity on average. The power savings equates to reducing CO2 emission by up to 60 kilograms per year – the equivalent of taking your car off the road for 14 days each year!”

“By WD estimates our GreenPower technology can save large data-hungry organizations like financial institutions and search engine services, up to $10 per drive per year in electricity costs (U.S.). Ten dollars per year doesn’t sound like much until you consider, for example, a large data center with say 10,000 drives. Do the math, that’s up to $100,000 in saving per year”