Marketing description

WD Green hard drives are designed for use in systems that require cool and quiet operation, as secondary drives in PCs, for external enclosures and other applications for which low noise and low heat are beneficial. These earth-friendly hard drives are ideal for use whenever energy efficiency is needed.

Key selling points

• Leading the way to green hard drives
• Conflict-free materials
• Halogen free
• Reduced rare earths dependency
• Cool and quiet
• NoTouch ramp load technology

Product features

• Leading the way to green hard drives
  WD led the industry in creating a category of hard drives that use less power and helps to reduce the world's energy demands one computer user at a time. With over 90 million WD Green drives sold customers using WD Green drives have saved the planet over 466 million kwh of power - nearly equaling the annual power production of a single coal power plant!
• Conflict-free materials
  As a leader in hard drive manufacturing, WD proudly guarantees hard drives are built with 100% conflict free raw materials.
• Halogen free
  In addition to being RoHS compliant, all WD Green drives are lead and halogen free, resulting in less pollutants getting into environment.
• Reduced rare earths dependency
  WD Green hard drives are built using less rare earth minerals. Reduced power consumption Best-in-class power management technology delivers significant power savings and solid performance.
• Cool and quiet
  WD GreenPower technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics perfect for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.
• NoTouch ramp load technology
  The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.
• IntelliSeek
  Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.