Simple Tech’s Green Hard Disc Drive
October 12, 2008 – 12:01 pm
Eco Friendly HDD
Addicting to the ever-growing list of environment-friendly products, Simple Tech has introduced its line of ‘Green’ Hard drives. Being ‘Green’, they are assured of consuming less power and are made of non toxic materials, which can be easily recycled.
The particular Hard Disk Drive (HDD) comes in a package that contains only the bare minimum things. This includes the drive with its USB and power cable, which are tapped to one side of the box. Unlike other similar packages, there is no trace of any paper, plastic other unnecessary material. What’ more, even the ‘Quick Install Guide’ in printed on the inside of the box! Truly, SimpleTech has taken every possible step to adhere to its ‘Go Green’ motive.
The drive itself is partially made of bamboo! It maybe hard to believe so, but the top and bottom potions of the drive are actually two pieces of bamboo strips which are not painted and smell so fresh, you would think they are just out of the lumber-mill! Since Bamboo is an easy to grow plant throughout Asia, it makes sense to use the naturally available resource. Another strategy to save power comes from the auto-switch off design.
It offers 500GB of storage space and USB 2.0 connection. No eSATA or FireWire are supported. A software driver knows as ‘Turbo Mode’ allows significant increase in the throughput speed.