Most, if not all, the hard drive manufacturers have come out with green drives; drives that spin down or turn off. There are two problems with counting on green drives to reduce your power consumption ...

With the rapidly rising cost of energy, the idea of green storage has regained some traction. While going green and reducing the carbon footprint has been a background theme of recent years, it’s ...

It's obvious that spinning disk is the source of most storage power consumption, and unused spinning disk represents wasted energy. But there are several challenges in growing storage incrementally, ...