ENERGY STAR Program Requirements for Data Center Storage Version 2.0

Policy Details

Products that meet all of the following conditions are eligible for ENERGY STAR certification, with the exception of products listed in Section 2.2:

i. meet the definition of a Storage Product provided in Section 1 of the policy document;
ii. are comprised of one or more SKUs and be able to be purchased in a single order from a storage product vendor;
iii. are characterized within the Disk Set Online categories 2, 3, or 4 and NVSS Set Disk Access categories Online 2, 3 or 4 with the following additional criteria:

a) contain a controller with advanced data recovery capability
b) support Block I/O and/or File I/O storage functions; and
c) implement scale-up or scale-out storage.