April 21, 2010

WD announced it has begun shipping the second-generation of its environmentally friendlier line of Caviar Green desktop hard drives with ]technology that reduces reduce power consumption. Capacities range from 500 GB ($99.99) to 1 TB ($219.99). WD said the Green drives consume up to 20-percent less power and provide a performance boost of 10-percent over the previous models. WDs latest WD Caviar Green hard drives consume up to 20 percent less power and offer a 10 percent increase in performance over the previous previous models.