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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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Western Digital has recently revealed that its work on consumer-oriented and enterprise storage solutions did not blind it, in the least, to the needs of other markets, such as that of AV/DVR and surveillance storage. The company has announced that its existing line of devices suited to such applications now features... |
25 March 2010
03:47 GMT |
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It seems that analyst estimates are turning out to have been wrong one after another. Acer was recently shown to have failed in its quest to supplant Dell as the second greatest PC supplier worldwide. Now, it seems that yet another top player has fallen short of its goal. According to iSupply, Western Digital didn�... |
23 March 2010
07:59 GMT |
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Now that storage technology has reached a point where capacity and speed are no longer the only factors taken into account when deciding on a purchase, companies are giving their devices a larger feature set and special traits in order for them to stand out. Aiming to go that extra mile, Western Digital has just rele... |
11 March 2010
02:33 GMT |
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Western Digital has already launched a series of storage units aimed at the consumer segment, but it seems that the company aims to also address the industrial sector with its SiliconDrive N1x family of solid state drives. Unlike the MLC-based SiliconEdge Blue, these storage solutions are built with single-level cell... |
3 March 2010
10:32 GMT |
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Western Digital has proudly announced that it has finished developing its very first consumer-oriented solid state drives from the SiliconEdge SSD family. Dubbed the SiliconEdge Blue, the new devices are meant for read-intensive applications and have been subjected to over 250,000 hours of internal testing in order ... |
3 March 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Even though hardware makers don't usually release any new product without trying to turn some heads, it seems that Western Digital did not care much for a so-called protocol this time around and has released a new Caviar Black hard drive based on the next-generation SATA 6.0 Gbps interface. Having introduced it ... |
11 February 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Solid state drives have been growing in popularity over the past year because, despite not having a storage capacity on par with hard drives, their performance is superior. SSDs have better read and write speeds and enable faster boot times and application loading. These elements are what allowed the selling of over ... |
25 January 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Eager to present its latest advancements in the area of high-quality and high-speed storage solutions, Western Digital has trumpeted its most recent addition to the My Book external hard drive family. Known as the My Book 3.0, the device is designed with support for the 5 Gbps data-transfer rates of the USB 3.0 inter... |
5 January 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Western Digital drives have begun incorporating a new type of formatting technology, which will allow them to run faster, support larger capacities and improve overall storage capabilities by using a larger sector size, namely 4k. Such larger physical sectors will increase format efficiency and even that of storage s... |
12 December 2009
05:41 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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Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of hard disk drives and the world's leader in external storage solutions, has announced today the launch of a couple of updated external storage solutions, part of the company's My Passport Elite, My Book Elite and My Boo... |
6 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of hard disks, solid state drives and other storage-related products, has just announced that it has completed its plans to move its headquarters and consolidate its Southern California operations into a single facility. Currently located in Lake Forest, Calif.... |
1 October 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Western Digital has gone all out, these days, with the company announcing a couple of updates to its line of internal and external storage solutions. Following the introduction of its new, 640GB, 2.5-inch hard drives for notebook systems and the new, revamped My Passport portable hard drives, the Lake Forest, Califor... |
11 September 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Following the introduction of its new, 640GB, 2.5-inch hard drives for notebook systems, Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital has just announced the introduction of its new My Passport Essential and My Passport for Mac ultraportable, external hard drives. The solutions have been specifically designed to inco... |
11 September 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital, one of the world's leading providers of computer storage solutions, announced today that it had started shipping its next-generation, 2.5-inch notebook hard drives, boasting a large 640GB of capacity. Featuring the industry's standard 9.5mm form factor, the com... |
9 September 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Western Digital continues to stay ahead of its competitors by announcing new products that take advantage of the latest technology developments in the storage industry, with today's introduction of the new desktop 7200RPM hard drives, boasting a 2TB storage capacity. Featuring the company's 500GB-per-platte... |
1 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of storage solutions, has recently announced the introduction of the new version of its popular WD TV media player, a product specifically designed for multimedia enthusiasts. According to the company, the new version can now provide users with support for play... |
18 August 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Lake Forest, California-based storage vendor Western Digital has just announced the introduction of its new My Passport Essential SE portable USB drives, coming to provide users with an increased storage capacity of 750GB and 1TB. The introduction of the new external storage solutions comes as no surprise, with the c... |
28 July 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has recently announced the launch of a new 2.5-inch hard drive designed to provide users with an impressive 1TB of storage space. With the launch of the new product, the company once again proves its commitment to provide users with the ver... |
28 July 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors, has announced the expansion of its external storage solutions, with the introduction of the newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual-drive network storage solution. Designed to deliver support to both PC and Mac users, the new product will provide an imp... |
25 June 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has just announced that it has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive III SSD product family, following the company's acquisition of SiliconSystems back in March 2009. With this announcement, Western Digital joins the increasing number of... |
16 June 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading providers of storage solutions, has just announced the introduction of its new My Book Studio Edition II, a Mac-compatible dual-drive external storage system that can provide users with as much as 4TB of storage space. The new solution ups the ante in terms of storage ... |
9 June 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading providers of storage solutions, has just announced the expansion of its WD AV-GP line of hard drives with the introduction of a new model, capable of delivering a massive 2TB of storage space, namely the industry's largest available drive to date. The WD AV-GP lin... |
19 May 2009
10:17 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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The digital media enthusiast market segment is continuously expanding, and one of the companies that recently came up with a new solution in the area is Western Digital, which launched the WD ShareSpace network storage system with a capacity of 8 TB (terabytes). This should fulfill the needs of any user that enjoys p... |
6 March 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's leading manufacturers of computer hard disk drives, has recently announced the expansion of its My Book range of external storage solutions with the introduction of the My Book World Edition, coming in 1TB and 2TB capacities. Designed to combine a shiny white enclosure with th... |
19 February 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the leading vendors of traditional hard disk drives, has just announced the numbers for its second fiscal quarter ended on December 26, 2008. According to the report, the company recorded revenue of $1.8 billion, on shipments of approximately 35.5 million units. The net income was at $14 milli... |
29 January 2009
02:21 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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While Seagate, the world's largest vendor of hard disk drives, is still having issues with its Barracuda hard drives, which have been reported to break even after a patch released by the company was applied, competitor Western Digital is expected to unveil a new product that will provide its customers with a mas... |
27 January 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Western Digital, the worldwide leading provider of storage solutions, announced today its plans to reduce its workforce, too, as many leading industry players have been doing recently. WD announced that its cost restructuring strategy involved laying off a number of its employees, while also closing some of its manuf... |
18 December 2008
04:09 GMT |
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Western Digital is expected to soon launch its new 2TB hard disk drive, which seems to have already surfaced on some retail sites. The Western Digital CaviarGreen WD20EADS – 2TB is listed at a Czech retailer for as much as €270, or $370. The features list of the HDD includes a Serial ATA II interface, 7200... |
16 December 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has recently announced the launch of its second generation SCALEO Home Server which sports environmentally friendly hard disks drives. The server packs up to four Caviar Green SATA hard disks from Western Digital stated to need 40 percent less energy to operate than a traditional HDD. Energy... |
28 November 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the worldwide leading providers of storage solutions, is reported to announce its readiness to make the first steps into the SSD market segment. According to Richard Rutledge, Western Digital's SVP for marketing, the company is waiting for the “appropriate opportunity” to make... |
24 November 2008
11:15 GMT |
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It seems that the mainstream size of enterprise-grade hard disk drives is on its move from the current 3.5 inches toward 2.5 inches due to the major power gains the smaller form factor HDDs offer. According to Paul Martin, Western Digital senior director for Worldwide Channel Marketing and Enterprise, a 10,000rpm 2.5... |
24 November 2008
06:06 GMT |
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