Kanguru Eco Drive Heralded as Most Environmentally Friendly Drive

Kanguru recently launched what they claim to be the most environmentally friendly hard drive available, dubbing it the Eco Drive. The drive has three built-in power saving modes to reduce power consumption by up to 75% and extend the drives life. Idle mode operates at 80% of normal power after 3 seconds of inactivity.

Standby mode operates at 10-20% of normal consumption after 3 minutes of inactivity, and power down operates at 10% of normal consumption after 5 minutes of inactivity. The reduced power modes are available on Windows 2000, XP and Vista only. The drive is also RoHS compliant and connects to the PC via USB 2.0. Like the Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive we recently tested, storage capacity is up to 750GB. I suspect that you will see some lag when the drive is operating in the reduced power modes and you try to access the drive.