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Western Digital's 2TB green drive eyes surveillance market

Western Digital has been busy customizing its hard drives.

A month ago, the company introduced what it called the first green 2TB enterprise hard drive aimed at data centers. Now it's making another drive specifically for audio and video applications, and also the surveillance market.

The company announced Tuesday the new 2TB WD AV-GP. It incorporates Western Digital's AV Intelligent Drive Technology, which makes it a good choice for AV applications such as DVRs, media centers, media servers, and surveillance video recording.

The drive is designed to better withstand high temperatures for long periods of time while remaining quiet during operation. The new drive's features also include:

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Western Digital goes greener with new enterprise hard drive

Western Digital has been using its GreenPower technology in most of its consumer-grade hard drives, including those in the My Book World Edition NAS server and the My Book Mirror Edition external hard drive.

The company turned its hard drives' green levels up a notch on Monday with the new WD RE4-GP hard drive. The drive is designed to work best for data center and digital video production facilities.

According to Western Digital, these are the two applications where a big number of hard drives are used and therefore would show a significant improvement in energy savings.

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