WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world  leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced that its WD  Green™ desktop 3.5-inch hard drives have been awarded the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013  Best Choice Award in the Green ICT
category. 

  The Best Choice Award is a technology-industry  recognition of distinctive products, judged on functionality, innovation and  market potential. This year the judging panel, comprised of government  officials, professors, experts and journalists, received more than 400
entries. 

  Employing the company’s WD GreenPower Technology™, WD Green hard drives were  the industry’s first  drives to significantly reduce power consumption when compared to standard hard  drives, and have been widely accepted globally, with more than 125 million  units shipped since their introduction in 2008. In addition to consuming less power, the purpose-built drives’ power-saving  technologies result in cooler and quieter operation. Available in capacities up  to 3 TB, the WD Green family is designed and manufactured with lead-free, conflict-free  and halogen-free materials.

  “We are honored by the recognition  COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013 is giving the WD Green drives,” said Matt Rutledge, vice  president of WD’s client computing business unit. "Our customers have  embraced WD Green drives for their efficiencies and cool and quiet attributes, which  are a primary criteria for certain applications. From working closely with our  customers, we understand their needs for purpose-built storage technologies,  whether they deliver high performance or network capability, or low power  consumption, like WD Green drives."

  WD Green desktop hard drives will be  exhibited at the Best Choice Award display area at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013.  WD will showcase its full product portfolio, latest  storage technologies and software solutions addressing thin-and-light mobile  devices, cloud datacenter computing and products for the connected lifestyle at  booth number L0810 in the World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall.