Green is More than just Low-Power Hard Drives

At Seagate we are committed to helping our customers create sustainable solutions by reducing energy consumption with the world's most efficient storage devices. But thinking green means more than just delivering low-power products. Seagate has also taken a leadership role in supply-chain transparency through a "full materials disclosure" approach, helping customers to reduce levels of toxic materials, such as halogen, in their solutions.

"Seagate had already begun demanding 'full materials disclosure' from its suppliers, requiring them to report all the chemicals present in their products, when Apple came knocking with its new orders in 2007." — Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek

"This has led the largest disc drive manufacturer in the world, Seagate, to create new drives that no longer use chlorine- and bromine-based chemistries. This success was largely facilitated by the company's full material disclosure system, which allows its engineers to know the complete chemical content of their products." — ChemSec & CPA Report: Greening Consumer Electronics

Seagate Full Materials Disclosure

Full materials disclosure spans all drive categories and provides clear information on the chemical content of products, thus bringing to market environmentally friendly solutions.

Because of this unique approach, Seagate has been recognised as a global leader in green manufacturing and production, in reports from the following:

• Business Week
• Newsweek Green Rankings 2009
• ChemSec & CPA Report - Greening Consumer Electronics

Seagate Green Product Innovation

Enterprise Storage

Seagate® Savvio®, Constellation™ and Cheetah® enterprise drives reduce data centre power and cooling by up to 92 per cent with technologies such as PowerTrim™ and on-demand PowerChoice™. Seagate Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) with instant SecureErase™ technology are available across all enterprise drive families. A single command makes data inaccessible, allowing SEDs to be repurposed or reused securely.

Desktop Storage

Seagate Barracuda® LP hard drives are the low-power drives that will not slow you down. The Barracuda® LP series combines industry-leading power efficiency with a 20 per cent performance advantage over competitors' "green" drives.

Notebook Storage

Seagate Momentus® hard drives are low-power drives by nature. With instant SecureErase technology, which makes data inaccessible, Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive models can be repurposed or reused securely, thus extending the life of the drive.

Consumer Electronics Storage

With Seagate consumer electronics products, there is no compromise between performance and power while reducing your eco footprint. The Seagate Pipeline HD™ drive offers optimal performance balanced with best-in-class power savings, acoustics and drive-case temperatures.

External Storage Solutions

Seagate's external storage solutions feature all of the inherent benefits of our desktop and notebook storage, with the added environmentally friendly advantages of streamlined packaging that minimises material waste and reduces fuel costs while being 100 per cent recyclable, plus Energy Star-compliant AC power adaptors for low power consumption. At Seagate, there is no special category for green drives. That is because all of our drives are green. Every hard drive is designed and built to the highest global standards of green manufacturing and packaging.