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I knew that the PC market was doing poorly in terms of sales, both because the first quarter of every year is a slow season and because of the generally poor state of the IT industry in general.
What I didn't know for certain was how much damage those factors did to the PC segment during the first three months ... |
16 May 2013
10:13 GMT |
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Western Digital is many things, but mainly it is a purveyor of storage products, one that tries to cover all the bases whenever it can.
Thus, it makes hard disk drives, solid-state drives, hybrid drives and optical drives, both internal and external.
The My Passport Ultra is the latest series of portable HDDs, capa... |
16 May 2013
04:02 GMT |
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Hybrid storage devices were few and far between last year, and almost unheard of prior to that, but now they are considered the next big thing on the storage industry, due to the price-capacity-performance ratio. WD and SanDisk are now pushing them faster.
Solid-state drives, made from NAND Flash memory chips, have... |
8 May 2013
03:05 GMT |
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As odd as it sounds, some corporations have only recently finished their fiscal years, which often don't coincide with calendar years. First we have looked at Logitech and now we have Western Digital.
Western Digital's fiscal year 2013 ended on March 29, which means that the past month was spent by its fi... |
25 April 2013
05:49 GMT |
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Some may say that 2.5-inch hard disk drive units with 7mm thickness are very, very slim, and we would agree, but there are those who feel they aren't thin enough for their needs.
Makers of particularly skinny ultrabooks are the most avid advocates of storage devices that are thinner than thin.
They were a lar... |
23 April 2013
08:43 GMT |
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Western Digital has introduced new SAS hard disk drives with rotary speeds of 10,000 RPM (rotations per minute) that have sequential transfer rates of 204 MB/s over SATA III (SATA 6 Gbps).
Called WD Xe, they also have up to 50% higher capacity and 67% less power need than normal 3.5-inch drives.
The trick abou... |
22 April 2013
10:24 GMT |
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Hard disk drives are Western Digital's game, but the company has just revealed a software product that may very well prove useful to owners of not just HDDs, but any USB-connected storage device.
That means solid-state drives, USB flash drives, SATA drives when housed inside a drive enclosure, and USB-connecte... |
17 April 2013
08:08 GMT |
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Western Digital announced recently that a new update is available for My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage device. Version 2.42.02 – 012 comes with an interesting changelog. This update focuses on the Windows 8 related issues such as the inability of File History to back up to default shares and the compati... |
11 April 2013
07:14 GMT |
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Until now, solid-state drives have been too expensive to be considered an outright replacement for hard disk drives. This is why HDD+SSD setups are getting so popular on the notebook market. Western Digital believes that last step can finally be taken though. Solid state technology company Skyera has something call... |
12 March 2013
13:51 GMT |
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Much like Advanced Micro Devices chose a new member of its board of directors, Western Digital has elected a new executive vice president.
The position being occupied is that of executive vice president of strategy and corporate development.
The person assuming the role is one Mark Long, who was a senior vice presi... |
28 February 2013
04:55 GMT |
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Smart TVs are becoming quite prominent, but most of them have one drawback, namely lack of built-in storage space. Western Digital is helping make up for that by releasing the My Book AV-TV external hard drive.
The WD My Book AV-TV HDD announcement is a sort of follow-up to the release of the latest TV Play set-top... |
13 February 2013
04:31 GMT |
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Being a company primarily focused on computer, data center and server storage, Western Digital surprised a lot of people when it entered the multimedia segment.
It persevered in spite of the skepticism though, and in this case results speak for themselves.
The company has launched the WD TV Play, a media streamer t... |
12 February 2013
09:23 GMT |
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Western Digital has launched a firmware that basically redefines how the TV Live Streaming Media Player works. This release comes with a very long list of changes, among which movie filter support, message indication for USB and network connection, and redesigned system menus might arouse your curiosity.Scrolling thr... |
28 January 2013
08:53 GMT |
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While Advanced Micro Devices reached a revenue of $5.42 billion / 4.08 billion, it actually incurred a large monetary loss in the fourth quarter of 2012, and 2012 as a whole. What we see now is a company that actually accumulated a profit during the December quarter.
The sum of $3.8 billion is definitely large (2.8... |
24 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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Western Digital has announced its new firmware version for the N900 and N900 Central routers, two sets of firmware that come with a large number of fixes, both adding support for Microsoft's latest operating system.The two releases resolve issues like FasTrack Plus with FTP traffic, various translations in suppo... |
23 January 2013
03:23 GMT |
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Western Digital Continues to be one of the two greatest suppliers of HDDs, but it needs to keep improving and expanding if it is to stay in the game, which is precisely what it has just done.
Western Digital didn't come up with all its ideas and technologies. Some of them were added to its portfolio through th... |
22 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Since hybrid drives are bound to become the favored storage solution for ultrabooks, Western Digital is preparing its camp.
True, the company has been designing and selling hybrid HDDs for months, but CES 2013 saw the appearance of the WD Black series.
Made of two drives, for now, it combined magnetic platter stora... |
10 January 2013
06:57 GMT |
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WD Sentinel DX4000 server firmware version 1.5.7.30 is out. Fixed issues include the forced default Server Time Zone to Baja, California (Mexico) during initial onboard, and various language translation problems in the User Interface (UI).From the feature enhancements list, we would like to point out the compatibilit... |
8 January 2013
09:33 GMT |
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Western Digital has updated the firmware for two of their popular routers: My Net N600 and N750. A changelog with the many fixes and resolved issues is also included.To begin with, the routers now have Windows 8 support and there are no more issues with files that were previously not shown in iTunes. WEP (Wired ... |
3 January 2013
08:26 GMT |
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My Book Live Duo, the personal Cloud Storage product from Western Digital, just got a new firmware update. The package comes with a handful of fixes and changes regarding compatibility issues and DLNA bugs.First of all, it now supports Windows 8 so those who already updated can use the NAS hardware without any drawba... |
21 December 2012
05:34 GMT |
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The home NAS device launched by Gigabyte, and its inability to support HDDs of over 3 TB, shows that 4 TB models have yet to become a full part of the storage industry.
This is why it might come as a surprise to learn that drives with 5 TB capacities are already being prepared.
Western Digital itself has revealed... |
3 December 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Western Digital already has a number of hard disk drive units with the capacity of 4 TB, but its strongest series has only now come to include members offering this illustrious capacity.
The platter speed of 7,200 RPM (rotations per minute), the cache of 64 MB and the SATA 6 Gbps (SATA III) connectivity isn't ... |
20 November 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Western Digital brings to the public a new experience in fast wireless connections. Its new AC1300 and AC Bridge will run up to 450 Mbps on a 2.4GHz band and 1300 Mbps on the 5Ghz band.The AC1300 router features 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports for your connected devices such as HD Game boxes, media players etc., and two USB... |
19 November 2012
02:57 GMT |
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The new WDTV Live and Live Plus firmware from Western Digital is now available for download. Unfortunately, it has a download limit of 3,000.Being a public beta, WD expects its customers to share details of their experience with the new firmware, so anyone who downloads it should log in to their forum to drop a line ... |
15 November 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Western Digital may never turn wireless networking products into a primary revenue source, but that doesn't mean it can't excel at making such things. The My Net AC1300 HD Dual-Band Router and My Net AC Bridge show that clearly.
Essentially, these two provide buyers with the benefits of the more or less be... |
14 November 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Hybrid hard disk drives were something of an inevitability, due to how well SSDs have been doing even despite their obvious disadvantage, price-wise. Western Digital is now ready to say how the world is responding to them.
A hybrid hard disk is a normal HDD with some NAND Flash memory integrated into it. The much f... |
23 October 2012
08:36 GMT |
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As all special software features, Windows To Go cannot gain fame in absence of hardware that supports it but, fortunately, it is an easy enough capability to implement. Microsoft saw to it and Western Digital spared no time in taking advantage of that.
IT sales nowadays run on how assured consumers are that they ar... |
22 October 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Recently, we've seen helium being used for two things, namely cooling and storage, and it is the latter use that Seagate does not hold much faith in, despite the apparent enthusiasm of Western Digital, more specifically its subdivision HGST (Formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies).
The idea of using heli... |
12 October 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Western Digital has been branching out, no longer selling only hard drives. We're not going to venture too far out of familiar waters here though, unlike when we wrote about the company's wireless routers.
Western Digital has completed a new member of its My Book external hard disk drive line.
Describin... |
10 October 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Japanese company Logitec has just launched a new NAS unit and this one is targeting home users that want to have something handy to unload all the media and files in their tablets, mobile phones or thin laptops. The company says that these will use Western Digital drives, optimized for 24/7 use.
We seriously doubt t... |
4 October 2012
17:11 GMT |
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American HDD company Western Digital (WD), part of the global WD/Seagate duopoly, has just announced a new series of high capacity enterprise HDDs that can handle up to 4TB of data per unit. The new drives come in SATA and in SAS variety.
Western Digital is trying to revamp its product line as the company has banked... |
27 September 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Western Digital announced its thinnest ever platter spinners in the first half of the current month (September, 2012), but it has since reconsidered its roadmap for this product type.
Originally, Western Digital aimed to start mass production of the 5mm HDD in 2013, probably around CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Sh... |
20 September 2012
05:52 GMT |
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As if to confirm what market analysts have been saying again and again (that HDDs are weakening as a market), Western Digital has released its forecast for the third quarter of the year (2012). Long story short, hard disk drive sales will be lower than the original expectations for the July-September period. The fo... |
15 September 2012
09:01 GMT |
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HGST, formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, won't win any prices for compactness thanks to its latest hard drive technology.
Then again, that was never the point. Rather than the consumer segment, HGST looked at the needs of the enterprise and cloud data center market.... |
13 September 2012
08:50 GMT |
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The acquisition of Hitachi was a drawn-out process, but Western Digital eventually got past all the procedures. Nevertheless, the transaction continues to surprise us even now.
It was obvious that Hitachi's leading staff would go through some changes, and we didn't exactly expect WD's own leadership ... |
11 September 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Western Digital will hold its Investor Day on Thursday, but it didn't wait for that particular occasion to announce the world's thinnest hard disk drive with hybrid technology.
Considering how long and verbose the WD press release is, we hoped for at least some specific information about the drive, beyond... |
10 September 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Western Digital, the current leader of the HDD market, has formally introduced the My Passport Edge and My Passport Edge for Mac portable hard disk drives.
The former features WD SmartWave, an automatic backup software that continuously makes spare copies of important PC files.
The latter is compatible with Apple... |
6 September 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Western Digital is struggling to find ways of expanding properly into the solid-state drive business, but HDDs remain its core focus, although it's not all that obvious from this latest move on the company's part. The new hard drive unit that Western Digital launched was not promoted through some overly b... |
3 August 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Many of your readers remember our criticism targeting the authorities that allowed Western Digital and Seagate to buy their competition and become a worldwide HDD duopoly that is now burning our pockets.
We explained many times before that Toshiba got some IP and equipment from Western Digital so that the Japanese c... |
2 August 2012
19:51 GMT |
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On looking at the company's financial report, we can safely say that Western Digital is suffering the consequences of not having taken solid-state drives seriously when they emerged, several years ago. Western Digital did very well during the April-June 2012 period, better than Seagate in fact, considering tha... |
1 August 2012
03:18 GMT |
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For decades, the HDD market was plagued by tough competition and oversupply. Asian manufacturers were successfully competing on price and performance and all players had to buy huge amounts of HDD components to ensure big discounts from their suppliers and keep the costs in check. You really need to check out the fi... |
28 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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You’d think that the shares of a company that has its factories under water would be dropping in value. Well, usually you’d be right, but when that company holds half of the world’s HDD supply in its pocket, the share price is only going up. You really need to check out the first and the second par... |
27 July 2012
21:21 GMT |
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After decades of oversupply and harsh competition in the global market, two of the world’s biggest HDD makers decided to buy all other competitors and increase prices to levels unheard of before. You really need to check out the first part of this series before reading any further. In 2011, Western Digital bo... |
26 July 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Western Digital has yet again posted record financial results for the fiscal quarter ending in June 2012. The company’s net income was 272% higher than the same period last year, and WD managed to spend a whole $1.1 billion in cash in the midst of the global economic downturn. The HDD market has long been in a... |
26 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Not long ago, Western Digital launched the first line of hard drives specifically made for home and small office network-attached storage devices. Called WD Red NAS 3.5-inch HDDs, they have now been adopted by Synology. The latter has added the WD30EFRX (3 TB), WD20EFRX (2 TB), and WD10EFRX (1 TB) as options to ... |
21 July 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Set-top boxes are in most every household nowadays, but they don't precisely turn TVs into Smart TVs, not in the same way that Raspberry Pi and Equiso can. Western Digital figured it may as well add some extra functionality to STBs, and it chose gaming. Though nothing heavyweight will work, the future WD TV ... |
19 July 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Hard drives, whether external or internal, are all about local storage, but Western Digital seeks to change this through the Dropbox cloud storage program, which just got updated, in a sense.
Western Digital has special software for its external hard disk units, different from the one shipped with internal units (i... |
12 July 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Back in April, Western Digital said that hard disk drive shipments would go back to pre-flood levels, more or less, by June.
We have to admit that this prediction did come true, to a moderate extent. Unfortunately, it only makes the situation more disappointing, if not frustrating, for the common man.
And we don&... |
11 July 2012
09:37 GMT |
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After Seagate acquired Samsung’s HDD division and Western Digital got Hitachi’s HDD business, the HDD market was left with a huge, almost perfect duopoly that manipulated HDD prices in any way the two companies desired. The only other company that was supposed to play the role of the third HDD &ldqu... |
29 June 2012
20:21 GMT |
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For the longest time, Western Digital has been a worldwide provider of hard disk drives, but the company is expanding its horizons in a direction that is, perhaps, not as easy to guess as others would be.
Western Digital has made its first announcement on the wireless home networking market. In other words, it has ... |
14 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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