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The hard disk drive market suffered severely from the floods that struck Thailand late last year (2011), but Western Digital, the company most seriously affected, may just recover faster than originally expected.
According to the company's most recent words on the matter, full recovery is expected to happen by... |
4 February 2012
03:45 GMT |
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The Thunderbolt technology from Intel has Western Digital promoting it at this year's Macworld/iWorld event, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, between January 26 and January 28.
Thunderbolt can work at up to 10 Gbps on two channels at once, in both directions, which means much higher read/wri... |
26 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Western Digital is not nearly as convinced as NAND Flash storage makers that the ultrabook market will greatly boost SSD sales. Western Digital reportedly stated, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts, that solid state drives sales wouldn't rise nearly as fast as some believed. One w... |
25 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Today is shaping up to be the day when the consequences of the floods in Thailand (in the IT field) become obvious, as even Western Digital has been forced to report abysmal shipment results. Following in the footsteps of Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA, Western Digital has handed out some financial details of it... |
25 January 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Looks like Western Digital is catering to the needs of people who want backups of all their files, having invented the My Book Live Duo.
The company describes this item as a “personal cloud storage” that makes a copy of all files stored on the systems connected to it.
It relies on an 800 MHz CPU and ha... |
6 January 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Western Digital’s streaming media players have just gained access to a wider selection of online content as the outfit has now added VUDU to the list of supported services.Thanks to this new addition, WD TV units will be able to stream a wide selection of 1080p Full HD videos with Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 audio f... |
21 December 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Looks like future owners of some Western Digital hard disk drives won't experience the bliss known as three-year-long free product support anymore.
People who ever bought a Scorpio Blue, Caviar Blue or Caviar Green hard disk drive made by Western Digital probably know that they all have three-year warranties.
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15 December 2011
10:37 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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Though some are still pessimistic about the prospects on the HDD market, a ray of sunshine, pale though it is, has broken through the winter clouds, or is expected to do so soon enough.
The hard disk drive shortage is one thing on the IT market that has been closely monitored by companies and market watchers alike.... |
6 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The end of the hard drive shortage caused by the catastrophic floods that affected Thailand seems to be in sight as Western Digital (WD) has just announced it restarted HDD production in one of its buildings in Bang Pa-in (BPI).WD managed to get the facility ready for production one week ahead of its internal schedul... |
2 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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The European Commission has finally given its stamp of approval for Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi, but there is a catch, one that involves a production plant. It was quite a while ago that Western Digital decided to buy Hitachi, all of it. Hitachi agreed, but that didn't mean everything would ... |
24 November 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Seagate and Western Digital have been in arbitration over allegations of use of trade secrets and misappropriation of confidential information, but their quarrel may finally be at an end. Then again, maybe it isn't, since Western Digital can still challenge the decision of the arbitrator who issued the 'a... |
21 November 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Western Digital seem to be committed to providing customers of the company's media players with access to as many multimedia services as possible and recently has added Vimeo and PlayJam online content support to their WD TV products.Vimeo enables users to explore an ever growing catalog of videos uploaded by pr... |
18 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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At the beginning of July, Western Digital announced that it had entered into an agreement with Microsoft to deliver a series of network storage solution for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and today the company delivered on its promise with the introduction of the WD Sentinel DX4000.WD's new storage serv... |
15 November 2011
10:06 GMT |
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The whole Thailand issue may have sparked fears somewhat higher than necessary, so Western Digital stepped up to the microphone and clearly said it hadn't actually stopped shipping hard disk drives.
By now, people keeping track of all the problems hammering at the hard disk drive market will know about the flo... |
4 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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At the end of July we reported that Western Digital was working on developing two new VelociRaptor hard disk drives with support for the SATA 6Gbps interface and larger caches, and now these HDDs have started to reach retail as they have been spotted in a Japanese store.The two new HDDs to get these additions are the... |
10 October 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Western Digital has invested quite a lot of effort in the development of its line of media players and earlier today it introduced the next-generation of WD TV Live streaming player that claims it's the first in its category to support the Spotify music service. The media player is available in two versions, one... |
6 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Western Digital has quietly refreshed two of its products in the iconic VelociRaptor hard disk drives series with support for the SATA 6Gbps interface as well as with larger caches in order to deliver improved performance.
The two new drives to get these additions are the 150GB and 300GB versions of the VelociRapt... |
26 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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After Samsung announced the introduction of the 2.5-inch Spinpoint M8 series of notebook hard drives that offered up to 1TB of storage capacity while using the industry standard 9.5mm height, it's now time for Western Digital to release a similar 1TB offering in the Scorpio Blue line.Just as its Samsung counterp... |
20 July 2011
05:07 GMT |
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Western Digital today announced that it has signed an OEM software agreement with Microsoft Corporation to include the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system into an upcoming range of small-office storage server products."Small businesses will find great value in the combination of WD's hardw... |
12 July 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Western Digital has released a new external drive catering to the needs of Mac professionals, both aesthetically and functionally speaking.WD’s newest generation of the popular My Book® Studio external hard drives are said to be designed for use with Mac computers and Time Machine, the OS X standard backup ... |
7 July 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Western Digital developed many hard disk drives until now, both regular and external/portable ones, but since some of the latter are less damage-proof than others, the outfit now chose to release an accessory instead of a new unit.When it comes to external had disk drives, especially portable units, users definitely... |
15 June 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Western Digital, the famous hard drives manufacturer has just announced the release of a new version of WD Photos for Android devices.
WD Photos is a photo viewer application, which allows Android users to remotely access content stored on My Book Live network drive from their mobile phones.
The new iteration o... |
18 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Having signed an acquisition deal with Hitachi, all that remains for Western Digital is to keep building on its status as prime supplier of HDDs, and this is exactly what it did with the newest AV-GP SATA models.Hard disk drives may be most commonly encountered in desktops and laptops, but consumer electronics are d... |
16 May 2011
09:04 GMT |
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With the new mergers on the HDD industry, competition has become more focused, with just three players now vying over control of the market, and TDK believes that Toshiba is not in as great a danger as some might think.By now, end-users probably know of the great mergers that happened on the HDD market over the past... |
10 May 2011
10:23 GMT |
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It has been recently discovered that Western Digital's line of Caviar Green hard disk drives, one of the company's most popular HDD ranges, is suffering from a critical design flaw which can cause the drives to behave abnormally, and could even lead to performance losses and a shorter HDD lifespan.The desig... |
20 April 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The increase in the amount of storage provided by HDDs has led to a similar phenomenon affecting external storage solutions, one of the latest examples of this trend being provided by Western Digital, who's just made official the My Book Studio Edition II, providing a whopping 6TB of storage space.According to W... |
17 March 2011
09:36 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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Soon after Intel's Thunderbolt technology made its debut in the 2011 MacBook Pro, Seagate and Western Digital, two of the most important storage solutions manufacturers on the market, have announced their support for the new technology as well as their plans to release Thunderbolt solutions in 2011.
Together,... |
25 February 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Even with all the worry that HDDs are slowly losing share to SSDs, it appears that Western Digital still managed to flourish during the last three months of 2010, leading to better results than originally expected.Last year, many suppliers of chips migrated to new manufacturing processes, leading to a rapid progress... |
19 January 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Western Digital has just announced that it has increased its line of enterprise SAS solutions with the addition of two new hard drive lines, the 2.5-inch WD S25 SAS and the 3.5-inch WD RE SAS, both offering higher storage capacities than their predecessors.
The newly released S25 SAS HDDs are available with either... |
18 January 2011
09:27 GMT |
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There is little point in debating whether or not HDDs are already threatened by SSDs, because they more or less are, at least in the long term, but such concerns are still low, especially with HDDs like WD's Caviar Blue getting faster.
As end-users may or may not know, the SATA 3.0 Gbps technology hasn'... |
8 December 2010
04:42 GMT |
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It seems that Seagate's decision to no longer listen to proposals of acquisition ended up preventing the most gigantic HDD-making company from coming into existence.One might say that each market segment has two representatives that have been locked in a rivalry for years.The CPU market has Intel and AMD, the G... |
3 December 2010
04:13 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 those wishing the year could go by without yet another lawsuit sprouting up will be met with disappointment now that the world's two greatest suppliers of hard disk drives have been sued for patent infringement.It is a more or less unfortunate truth on the IT market that lawsuits and litigations a... |
11 November 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Western Digital seems really keen on adding more and more functionality to their home network drive range, the company just releasing a new Android app that lets users view all the photos stored on their My Book Live, My Book World Edition and WD ShareSpace storage solutions, anywhere they have an Internet connection... |
3 November 2010
05:50 GMT |
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Western Digital has launched today its new WD Photos photo viewer app that enables Android smartphone users to remotely access their photo library through the WD home network drive, including My Book Live, My Book World Edition and WD ShareSpace models.WD Photos app is compatible with a wide range of Android smartpho... |
2 November 2010
12:48 GMT |
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Western Digital seems really serious when it comes down to its media player line, the company just announcing the new WD TV Live Hub that adds media center capabilities to its already impressive WD TV series, this new device coming in with a 1TB networked hard drive.What this means is that you can now store all you c... |
26 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Western Digital, like all of its competitors, has been releasing storage units of all kinds, and the latest one comes under the guise of the My Book Live home network drive, an external storage unit with network connectivity.Network-attached storage devices have become quite widespread among those that set up or kee... |
7 October 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Since it was only a matter of time before Seagate's external 3TB HDD offer was matched, Western Digital came out and showed off the My Book Essential series that not only have capacities of 3TB, but complement it by means of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard.The series of external storage devices that were update... |
5 October 2010
09:23 GMT |
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Western Digital may have gained its fortune from making and selling storage solutions, and while it definitely focuses on this business outlet, it is not limited to it. In fact, the company deals in a variety of other things, such as media players like the Elements Play line. Nevertheless, WD's strong suit rema... |
9 August 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Western Digital appears to be especially pleased with having retained hard drive shipment dominance over the past FY quarter, as it decided to pay some more attention to the small things that make external/portable hard drives appealing. When making a regular storage device, aesthetic value is the last thing on the m... |
22 July 2010
08:54 GMT |
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Western Digital managed to snatch the top position as HDD seller from Seagate in the third quarter of this Fiscal year 2010, and it has proudly stepped up in order to announce that it succeeded in keeping it during the fourth. Q4 ended on July 2 and, though it didn't exactly bring in revenues on par with those o... |
22 July 2010
03:48 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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For a very long time, Seagate led the hard disk drive market in both the areas of total shipments and revenues. All the while, Western Digital, though quite adept itself, was never really able to topple the former, mostly because Seagate's marketing strategy, and the focus on the enterprise front, propelled its... |
5 June 2010
04:42 GMT |
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The SATA 6.0Gbps interface has come along nicely since it was introduced, even being natively supported on the latest motherboard chipsets. Despite this, however, the number of actual storage devices capable of taking advantage of this standard is relatively small, with even Western Digital having just one on sale, a... |
17 May 2010
04:28 GMT |
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While AMD and Intel definitely have taken the concept of rivalry down to the last letter, the same could, in a way, be said about Seagate and Western Digital. On the hard drive market, these two have been 'fighting' over the top position for quite some time. Seagate managed to somehow stay in the lead last ... |
13 May 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Seagate might have managed to reach the highest revenues during the past quarter, but Western Digital is gradually reducing the gap by selling more and more storage units. In fact, even though it didn't manage to beat its rival in terms of revenue, WD somehow succeeded in selling more HDDs than the top player. T... |
23 April 2010
02:38 GMT |
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The storage industry has seen a strong development of Flash-based Solid State Drives, as these solutions have recently become more affordable, while providing consumers with a noticeable increase in performance, when compared to traditional drives. The launch of SATA 6Gbps interface, however, could further increase t... |
6 April 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Western Digital seems bent on playing the high-areal-density card to the maximum, having now made the official introduction of a notebook storage unit that, while using only two platters, achieves the capacity of 750GB. Known as the Scorpio Blue, the product's platters each have an areal density of 350GB, which ... |
30 March 2010
09:27 GMT |
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