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Western Digital, one of the leading makers of hard disk drives, is reported to be in talks with competitor Fujitsu for the acquisition of the latter's unprofitable hard drive business, according to a source inside the company. This transaction could allow Western Digital to claim the leading position in the hard... |
2 October 2008
04:54 GMT |
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After yesterday's release of WD ShareSpace, Western Digital's first product ever to address the small-office network storage market, the company has introduced today its second-generation Caviar Green desktop hard drives. The new HDDs feature the proprietary GreenPower technology, which is meant to signific... |
1 October 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the few leading storage manufactures that haven't yet ventured on the SSD market, has announced today the introduction of its new WD ShareSpace product lineup, a high-speed network storage system that can provide a cost-effective, centralized storage for small office and home networks. Th... |
30 September 2008
10:34 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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Western Digital, one of the leading manufacturers of storage devices, has announced today that it has started shipping its WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch hard drives designed for notebooks. This means that notebook users will be able to benefit from a maximum storage capacity of 500GB. The latest hard drives from Western D... |
12 September 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Western Digital is undoubtedly one of the biggest storage manufacturers for both the business and the consumer markets. Among the company's most prestigious products, we also have one that is meant to present computer enthusiasts with a high storage capacity built in a high-speed hard drive. We're talking h... |
23 July 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Despite the fact that some claim that HDDs have almost outlived their usability, the overall HDD industry is continuing to grow. According to iSuppli, this happens mostly because of an insatiable demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices.The current figures regarding HDD shipments indicate a rather impressiv... |
23 July 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Last week, Western Digital introduced on the market its latest product, the My Book Mirror Edition. The device is an external hard drive storage system featuring two hard disk drives compatible with both Mac and PCs and able to keep users' digital content safe through the use of a RAID 1 configuration. The start... |
23 June 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Western Digital is, as we already know, one of the leading manufacturers of computer storage solutions for both the consumer and the enterprise market. One of the company's most successful products is part of the Raptor and VelociRaptor lineup. These drives are considered a reliable solution by a considerable nu... |
20 June 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Just two months ago, Western Digital released the VelociRaptor hard drives, which are now the fastest HDDs available on the market. Upon launch, these hard drives were touted to be the fastest high capacity hard drives available on the market - which actually turned out to be the case. Apparently, Western Digital is ... |
19 June 2008
05:14 GMT |
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In case you have been wondering about what Western Digital has been doing lately, well here's a little update. Apparently, the storage manufacturer is trying to put an end to all these talks about how SSDs are becoming the next-generation storage solution. In this sense, it has been working hard on one of its mo... |
11 June 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Who says that HDDs can't compete with Flash-based Solid-state drives? Apparently not Western Digital, that is rumored to be working on a whooping 20K RPM Raptor hard drive. According to several sources inside the hard drive industry, the storage manufacturer is trying to combat the increasing pressure from SSD m... |
6 June 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the largest manufacturers of storage solutions, has announced today that it is now shipping a new line of WD Scorpio hard disk drives. The WD Scorpio Black HDDs are based on 2.5-inch SATA interface and will provide a platter rotational speed of 7200 RPM. According to the company, the new produ... |
2 June 2008
10:48 GMT |
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My DVR Expander USB Edition external hard drives will be introduced today by Western Digital. The new external HDDs offer verified compatibility with DISH Network Corporation's ViP Series HD digital video recorders (DVR), enabling DISH customers to successfully use it for expanded storage space. The new externa... |
16 May 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Western Digital has just released its new series of VelociRaptor hard-disk drives. Touted as being faster and more reliable than any previous generations of hard-disk drives from Western Digital, the new units have been named after one of the smallest and fiercest carnivorous dinosaurs in the Jurassic.The new HDD off... |
21 April 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Western Digital is one of the most important and well established hardware companies that are in the business of providing reliable and top of the line data storage solutions. While other similar companies like Seagate and LaCie are already well known and appreciated for their families of portable storage hard disk d... |
31 March 2008
02:06 GMT |
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Storage specialist Western Digital announced that it will not ship its platters to competing companies as of May this year. The company is currently producing hard-disk drives platters through its Komag subsidiary, also known as WD Media."This action sizes our media and substrate operation to the current demands of a... |
25 March 2008
10:54 GMT |
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Storage specialist Western Digital has announced that it started shipping the 640 GB version of the Caviar SE16 3.5-inch desktop hard-disk drive. The storage capacity may be no reason for the company to be proud, given the fact that 1 TB drives are almost mainstream parts, but the technology inside the 3.5-inch casin... |
19 March 2008
12:28 GMT |
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It's needless to say how much we need and appreciate external data storage units that go along with our smaller and smaller notebook PCs. But when high capacity meets small form factors and extreme portability, then we can say we've got a winner.Western Digital has released on the market the updated version... |
31 January 2008
03:59 GMT |
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The storage market is somewhat similar to the DRAM battlefield and can be translated into a single sentence: "you're late, you're dead". No wonder that the industry titans are in a continuous battle for the largest and cheapest hard disk drives. As if it were not enough, there's the new and shiny solid... |
24 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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People usually buy external hard drives to complete their inefficient storage space. By inefficient, we usually mean 60 or 80 GB as most of the actual notebooks still carry. Well, talking about inefficiency, an 80 GB hard disk drive can easily carry the whole Library of Congress in textfiles. Not quite inefficient ri... |
8 December 2007
06:22 GMT |
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Western Digital has recently announced their Passport Portable Drive, to carry 320 GB in the palm of your hand. The small-form factor is the largest 1.8-inch drive on the market and promises you true plug-and-play capabilities in an ultra-portable design.External storage is a mandatory prerequisite for the mobile wor... |
4 December 2007
03:09 GMT |
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Fujitsu has just reported their 2.5-inch hard drive to deliver a maximum storage capacity of 320 GB. The MHZ2 BH line is designed for use in notebooks and compact desktop PCs, as well as for other consumer electronic devices, such as HDD camera recorders or television sets.The MHZ2 BH has become a reference point in... |
27 November 2007
07:03 GMT |
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As everyone could have expected, thanks to the blaring success of the RE2-GP line, codename 'eco', Western Digital assaults the hard disk market with yet another Earth-friendly product: the WD GP 500.The WD Caviar GP 500 GB is a small-scale copy of the WD Caviar GP 1 TB, built using the same technology. Wh... |
27 November 2007
03:19 GMT |
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The storage industry has undoubtedly undergone a fascinating evolution this year. We have seen the 250 GB notebook hard drive hit the shelves, as well as we have witnessed the first 3.5'' one terabyte hard disk drive. Most of all, the new technology is already mass-produced, with affordable prices for the c... |
26 November 2007
09:39 GMT |
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The IT industry has been hit by a new obsession: environmental-friendly products. Every major hardware manufacturer has to design their components in such a way for everyone to see how they love old fellow Earth. Although there are no standard eco-friendly specifications, worldwide manufacturers outline their ecologi... |
26 November 2007
03:03 GMT |
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Western Digital has announced a new line of hard disks that practically spare up to 40 percent of power, as compared to the competition's products. The GreenPower compliant class of SATA drives (RE2-GP) feature capacities ranging from 500GB up to 1TB and use around 5 watts less at no performance loss. This perfo... |
22 November 2007
03:35 GMT |
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In case you haven't already ordered this piece of hardware, we bring good news: Western Digital have just launched a 320GB 2.5 inch Scorpio SATA hard drive. This 5400 RPM baby costs only $200 and it will be compatible with the PS3 that supports any SATA hard drive out there. Finally some freedom from Sony who wi... |
2 November 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Not long after Western Digital announced the achievement of the "industry's highest demonstrated density to date using continuous media", the company is coming out with another first. Western Digital yesterday announced the availability of the new WD Scorpio 320 GB 2.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for note... |
1 November 2007
06:10 GMT |
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It seems that only yesterday, perpendicular recording was making its way into hard disks, and now, more than two years later, HDD manufacturers continue to break density barriers. Western Digital yesterday announced that they have achieved the "hard drive industry's highest demonstrated density to date using con... |
18 October 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Western Digital just announced a storage capacity increase in its line of external storage devices, the Passport range of products that now comes with a maximum of 250GB, a serious boost from the previous 160GB capability. While there are hardware producing companies out there that are taking the design and finish of... |
3 October 2007
06:58 GMT |
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The computer hardware manufacturing company Western Digital today announced the launch of a new product line that comes as a continuation of its external storage solutions, the My Book family. This product family is composed of several solutions which are specially designed for different fields and uses like the My B... |
20 September 2007
11:27 GMT |
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After the NAND memory crash down from Samsung, when the manufacturer ceased production for a few hours because of a power leakage at one of its production facilities in Korea, it looks as if the hard disk drive market is next on the list of disasters just waiting to happen. Hard disk drives inventories are running lo... |
14 August 2007
03:14 GMT |
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It would seem the manufacturers of external storage devices have gone a little crazy lately, as they keep launching new models with increasingly higher storage capacities. And the target, at least for the time being, seems to be the 2 TB value, as any company that considers itself an important player on the storage m... |
27 July 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Wester Digital announced the end of a very strong fiscal year. During the last quarter of the 2007 fiscal year, the company shipped no less than 24.9 million hard disk drive units, a serious jump from the 19.2 million units from a year ago. For this year, Western Digital registered $5.5 billion in revenues and an ad... |
27 July 2007
04:31 GMT |
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It looks as if the entire computer manufacturing industry is having a collective green "fit". It is not something really new, some power regulations were installed long ago, but not until now were they so closely observed and respected. Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of a greener and environment frien... |
26 July 2007
09:58 GMT |
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There is an increasingly strong current in our world today that starts reflecting a little bit on the computer hardware manufacturers and that current is the need to make equipment more environment-friendly and more power efficient. Hoping to ride the green wave, the hard disk drive manufacturer Western Digital annou... |
24 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Western Digital just announced that a new enterprise class line of hard disk drives will become available through resellers. The main product of this line is the WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750 GB that features Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for the high system performance needed by the enterprise class."WD h... |
18 July 2007
03:44 GMT |
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As less and less people actually have the time of watching TV shows exactly when they're aired, digital video recorders (DVRs) have become extremely popular during the past few years. However, they generally provide relatively limited storage spaces, at least compared to the users' needs and this is the rea... |
29 June 2007
08:51 GMT |
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As many of you know, Western Digital's portable line dubbed "Passport" uses WD's own 2.5" mobile hard disk drive units. And since things can hardly be called "static" in the world of magnetic storage, Western Digital decided to roll out two new hard disk drive units.The first was the all awaited 750GB Cavia... |
7 June 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Remember Western Digital? Well if you do, then you probably have hard drive units with 500GB of storage capacity at most. I say that because up until now, only Seagate and Hitachi offered disk drives with capacities larger than 500GB. And since a little history lesson won't hurt anyone, let's take a moment ... |
6 June 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Portable hard drives have been around for quite some time offering a healthy alternative to internal storage. Buying one for yourself at this particular moment seems a rather good idea especially if you need to carry a large amount of data with you. While this statement alone doesn't directly relate to the impor... |
12 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Western Digital is commonly known as a hard drive manufacturer, with a great deal of success on their Raptor series of drives, also known as the fastest desktop drives. The company has withdrawn from the SCSI business some time ago, dedicating their services for the desktop segment and having many intrusions into the... |
10 April 2007
09:00 GMT |
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