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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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It’s clear that HDD capacity is still in high demand and the demand will only grow in the following years. That’s why profit mongering HDD company Western Digital has reportedly discussed new technologies to increase the capacities and performance of its products, yesterday at a conference in Vienna, Aust... |
10 May 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Western Digital has announced a high-storage capacity drive specifically crafted for Mac users, that simply looks awesome!
Along with Time Machine compatibility for automatic backup of Mac hard drives, the new My Passport Studio portable drive features an “elegant and protective all-metal casing to complement ... |
3 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Western Digital has started shipping the My Book Live Duo, a NAS (network-attached storage) device that is meant to act as a central hub for the home.Nicknamed a personal cloud storage unit by WD itself, My Book Live Duo can be accessed from not just PCs, but iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch and Android devices as well (sm... |
20 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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We bring you the latest Western Digital firmware for one of their popular external storage solutions, the My Book Live NAS. The new firmware has reached the 2.10.09 version and brings a heap of changes and fixes for a lot of issues which plagued the old software.Among the nastiest things which went wrong with the pre... |
8 December 2011
10:08 GMT |
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The flooding problems of the HDD industry are rising and, with them, concerns that hard disk drive units will suffer from severe shortages starting two months or so from now.
We previously spoke of how the hard disk drive market is about to go through a tough period because of flooded factories.
Western Digital, ... |
27 October 2011
09:25 GMT |
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It looks like this year is going through its second phase of natural disaster-induced economic upheaval, though at least this once the effects will be restricted to just one IT field instead of the whole world's economy. Though not as bad as the disaster that shook Japan back in March, certainly not as deadly,... |
19 October 2011
05:05 GMT |
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We already spoke about how the floods in Thailand have or will disrupt the activities of the world's top HDD makers and, it turns out, December will see some real shortages. Cutting right to the chase, hard disk drives are in serious danger of ending up in short supply during the final month of the ongoing yea... |
17 October 2011
09:34 GMT |
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After WD said it had to shut down pretty much every one of its operations in Thailand, Seagate is facing unfortunate prospects as well, since it has its own facilities there. Thailand has been suffering from bad flooding for a while already, with extensive consequences, albeit perhaps not quite as horrible as those... |
14 October 2011
15:55 GMT |
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Those who learned of the severe floods that hit Thailand will have deduced that the consequences are going to be quite widespread, and Western Digital is, apparently, feeling them already.
People may have read about how severe floods hit Thailand, affecting or outright destroying the lives of millions of people. ... |
12 October 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Western Digital isn't bound to let much time go by without some new HDD coming out and, sure enough, it released just this sort of products, only aimed at Apple Mac systems instead of PCs.I-O Data isn't the only company that decided this was an opportune time for the release of new hard disk drive units.We... |
22 September 2011
11:01 GMT |
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It appears that a certain, major acquisition is not proceeding as smoothly as some may like, now that the European Commission has become involved in a less than favorable fashion.Some time ago, Western Digital announced that it had reached an agreement with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies that enabled the former... |
30 August 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Toshiba may have lagged behind the two other powers on the HDD market, but it definitely doesn't plan on slacking off, having decided to set the basis for not just one, but two new HDD development centers.One could say that the past several quarters saw things on the hard disk drive market change massively in t... |
8 July 2011
04:30 GMT |
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While Intel is enjoying the feeling of amazement at once again breaking its quarterly revenue record, Western Digital is facing a decline, although it didn't suffer enough to lose ground and hand the leading position back to Seagate.Western Digital may have sealed a deal with Hitachi, through which it completel... |
21 April 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Western Digital may have managed to overcome Seagate and become leading HDD maker in the entire world, but it only managed to oust it my a couple of percentage points, something that will change once the Hitachi acquisition is completed.Some end-users may have heard of the recent bomb dropped by Western Digital, the... |
8 March 2011
07:53 GMT |
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In a surprising and unforeseen turn of events, Western Digital has just announced that it has purchased Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Western Digital will acquire Hitachi GST for $3.5 billion in cash and ... |
7 March 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Hard drives are growing increasingly threatened by SSDs, though at a slow pace, and makers of such units will have to come up with ways of keeping this storage technology appealing, hence Western Digital's new research and development center.As end-users know, Western Digital is one of the major worldwide suppl... |
25 February 2011
10:44 GMT |
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For the hard disk drive market, the year 2010 was a period of growth, and while both Seagate and Western Digital performed admirably, marketing-wise, it seems that a change in leadership came to pass.For many years, Seagate and Western Digital have been battling over the top position on the hard disk drive market.Gr... |
23 February 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Western Digital would not be one of the world's top makers of HDDs if it didn't keep up with current trends, so of course it would take advantage of CES 2011 to release a new hard disk drive.Western Digital already has a great number of HDDs on sale, from 3.5-inch desktop drives to more compact laptops uni... |
5 January 2011
09:29 GMT |
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One of the best things about the latest-generation, networked/streaming media players is the fact that a simple firmware update can seriously enhance their level of functionality and, in fact, that's exactly what WD's doing right now for its WD TV Live and WD TV Live Plus media players, both of which will b... |
23 November 2010
14:51 GMT |
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It seems that Western Digital has finally come around to releasing its financial results for the recently ended quarter, the first one of Fiscal Year 2011 that is, and it seems that profits managed to slip even in spite of greater HDD sales.Western Digital is one of the major suppliers of hard drives worldwide, on p... |
20 October 2010
02:31 GMT |
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While solid state drive get faster, courtesy of new SandForce controllers, hard drives excel in their own area of expertise, that of storage space to be exact, and Western Digital just announced that it has started shipping what it calls the world's largest-capacity SATA HDDs.Some time ago, makers of hard disk ... |
19 October 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Though it won't exactly be the first to do it, Western Digital will be getting around to releasing a hard drive of 3 TB sometime this month, along with some other electronics it had been working on.As some end-users might know, the first company to actually launch hard disk drives of 3 TB, even an external one,... |
4 October 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of storage devices, announced today the debut of its new line of My Book Studio LX external drives, aimed at graphics professionals and photo editing enthusiasts. The new product has been designed to seamlessly work with Apple's iMac, G5 or MacBook Pro com... |
8 June 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Just like LaCie and Symwave announced yesterday that they would be promoting the new SuperSpeend USB 3.0 standard by showcasing a USB 3.0 dual-disk RAID storage solution at CES 2010, Western Digital and NEC Electronics also revealed their collaboration plans for the development of high-speed USB 3.0 storage solutions... |
18 December 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's most recognizable brands in the consumer storage market, has announced today the debut of its new WD S25-inch 2.5-inch traditional hard drive, featuring a SAS interface. Designed for the traditional enterprise market segment, the new drive is the company's first SAS-based... |
3 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's biggest companies in the storage industry, has just announced a new addition to its line of external storage solutions, with the introduction of the WD TV Live HD media player, designed to provide users with support for network connectivity and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The ne... |
13 October 2009
09:37 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has just announced that it has expanded its family of My Book external hard drivers with the addition of a single-drive solution that boasts an impressive 2TB of storage space. With the announcement, Western Digital has basically expanded i... |
26 March 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Western Digital, a leading vendor of hard disk drives, has just introduced the world's first 2TB hard drive, in the form of a new environmentally-friendly WD Caviar Green hard drive. Designed as a 3.5-inch product, the world's highest-capacity hard drive takes advantage of the company's industry-leadin... |
27 January 2009
10:13 GMT |
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With most storage product manufacturers releasing, or planning to release, new solid state drives with higher capacities and better performance, Western Digital, one of the world's leading providers of internal and external storage solutions, has decided to provide its customers with a new way by which they can ... |
4 November 2008
03:17 GMT |
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After recently announcing that it has started shipping its latest WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch hard drives with 500GB of storage space, Western Digital has announced today a new product offering that will provide computer users with a maximum of 500GB of storage. Designed to be both stylish and portable, the company'... |
15 September 2008
09:28 GMT |
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