Green Is More Than Low-Power Hard Drives

Seagate is 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 delivering low-power products. Seagate has also taken a leadership role in supply chain transparency through a "full materials disclosure" approach, helping customers reduce levels of toxic materials like halogen in their solutions.

"Seagate had already begun demanding 'full materials disclosure' of 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 disk 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 visibility to the substances that make up the information needed to bring to market environmentally friendly solutions.

Because of this unique approach, Seagate has been recognized 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 center power and cooling by up to 92 percent with features like PowerTrim™ and on-demand PowerChoice™ technologies. Seagate Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) with instant SecureErase™ technology are available across all enterprise drive families. A single command makes data inaccessible, allowing SEDs to be securely repurposed or reused.

Desktop Storage

Seagate Barracuda® LP hard drives are the low-power drives that won't slow you down. The Barracuda® LP series combines industry-leading power efficiency with a 20 percent performance advantage over competitor "green" drives.

Notebook Storage

Seagate Momentus® hard drives are low-power by nature. Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive models with instant SecureErase technology, which makes data inaccessible, can be securely repurposed or reused, 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 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 minimizes material waste and reduces fuel costs while being 100 percent recyclable and Energy Star-compliant AC power adaptors for low power consumption. At Seagate, there isn't a special category for green drives. That's because all of our drives are green. Every hard drive is designed and built to the highest global standards of green manufacturing and packaging.