Thread: Western Digital WD RE2-GP Hard Drive

In addition to storage concerns, small and big enterprises, also look for reliability and power consumption. Thus, these drives are required to do storage duties on servers continuously for months or even years. The Western Digital WD RE2-GP is part of the company's low-power consuming drives. In our tests, though this hard drive was not the fastest, overall, it makes for a very sensible purchase, given the balance between power saving features, speed and a high MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) and maximum start-stop-cycle of 6,00,000, that is over 20 percent higher than other 1 TB drives.



Its power consumption at idle is rated at a meager 3.3 Watts and 6 Watts at seek - very impressive figures indeed. Amongst other things, Western Digital has implemented an interesting feature to arrive at this low-power figure. The drive sports variable rpm technology which reduces the rotational speed during idle periods, which also reduces component strain. This competitively priced Seagate Barracuda ES.2 was the fastest 1 TB drive in benchmarks, but disappointing in real world tests.