SimpleTech hops on eco-friendly bandwagon with [re]drive HDD
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 28th 2008 3:11PM
posted Jul 28th 2008 3:11PM
[Via Wired]
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Actually looks quite nice, like some kind of strange designer label HDD
It really isn't too bad is it? I'm actually kind of impressed. And it's not too bad price wise either.
i'd buy the enclosure. somehow i doubt they'll sell just that; bundle ye generic fail-disk drive!
I would put a velociraptor in this just to watch the bamboo burn
They should make it REALLY green and "reclaim" an old 20MB hard drive
Too bad that they probably had to tear down a patch of land to get to that bamboo.
No, they just had to beat up some pandas.
Hopefully not of the "sexual harassment" variety. That would make me a saaaaad panda.
Nah, bamboo is frickin' everywhere in Asia, almost like a plague. You ever see buildings in China under construction? All their scaffolding is bamboo, yes, even the 100-story high-rises (at those heights they use some green netting around the bamboo to hold it up). It does make some sense, bamboo is actually stronger than steel in certain types of tests.
My company has a plant in the Philippines, and we came out with an 'Eco-Friendly' product line. Basically we took all the crap available there (bamboo, coconut husks, etc.) so we didn't have to pay to have materials shipped from China or elsewhere. We could care less about the environment, we just wanted to make an extra buck...save on materials and shipping and sell a shoddy product at a higher price to an overly-paranoid eco-nutjob...cha-ching! I would imagine a lot of other 'eco-friendly' bamboo products are the same way.
Bamboo is related to grass. It grows extremely fast if you don't keep an eye can become quite a nuisance. That's what makes it good for harvesting. It's hard to get rid of. Chop it down and it grows right back and fast!
Strangely enough, take the above statement and remove the first sentence on grass, and you have an accurate description of the pine trees used for paper....
@Kamokazi:
BE MOAR CYNICAL
$150? Not bad...
This is absolutely lame. The case of these things are the LEAST of the environmental hazards. Especially if the case is metal. Its the circuit boards and whatnot that are hazardous.
guilt-assuagement is skin deep
Wow. This is tons better looking than that Samsung, and by far better looking their their italian-designed series.
Just one question: Will it last 5 years? or will it break?
It will blend.
yeah sure. just like hot dogs are eco-friendly because they're not quite as inert as styrofoam.
Yeah, but have you ever tried to drink out of a cup made of hot dogs???
You can, but there will probably be a camera involved and it'll be XXX rated.
Unfortunately, one will be hard-pressed to find desktop/monitor/accessory options in that price range that will match the wooden design.
So if one purchases the HDD, it will be wooden while everything else is aluminum or what not.
This would go good with that Dell Studio desktop if they had kept the bamboo on it.
you wanna be real eco friendly? strip some o' that faux wood grain paneling off your apartment walls and glue it onto your stuff
Or that Ford station wagon with the wood panels..
they should make that (red)rive HDD and satisfy two causes at the same time. I'd go for a red panelled one to replace that bamboo stick-on
It could be the Green/(red) Christmas model! They could call it the "recycled aids box"
oh great now i have that old Ween song in my head
I'd take one but only if it came with a Firewire 800 or eSata conenction. USB is too slow for what i need... I've just been buying oem drives and using a rosewill enclosure for all my needs. i can get 1 terabyte of storage for about 220 bucks...
oh... coated in wood? *raises index finger* ...Must be eco-friendly.
This would match my IKEA desk as if they were built for each other.
maybe they were. MUHAHAHA
I read somewhere that slapping bamboo on a product is actually LESS eco-friendly than making it out of metal or plastic. And notice that it is "recyclABLE" aluminum, not "recyclED."
sigh.
And @Kamokazi, thank you for destroying what little faith I had in the human race. Asswipe
so, basically, it's no more eco friendly than any other aluminum HD enclosure. I mean, "recyclable" aluminum? how about post-consumer RECYCLED aluminum? all they've done is pasted some bamboo on a standard external drive.
Well, duh, their name is SIMPLEtech, not INNOVATIVEtech or PROGRESSIVEtech. You people expect too much!
Makes a handy cutting board too.
It's about $50 too much for a half T but the looks make up for it to me.
What, IS this??????
Hard drive case. :>
How eco-friendly is it???
just f away, frake eco
So they killed a plant in the name of the environment? Next they'll make one out of elephant tusks because those grow back too!
Check out its eco-friendly elements here: http://www.simpletech.com/content/eco-friendly-redrive