Western Digital Archive

  • WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player plays just about everything

    WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player plays just about everything

    Not to be outdone, Western Digital just released the Live Plus HD Media Player with Netflix streaming. The $149 box will stream just about anything to any TV and includes a direct storage access system, allowing you to stream video right off of a hard drive. The device outputs 1080p video over HDMI 1.3. It [...]

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  • Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Seagate is no longer the reigning hard drive king. Western Digital edged-out Seagate in the first quarter of 2010 by shipping 51.1 million hard drives.

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  • Western Digital has sold more hard drives this year than Seagate

    Western Digital has sold more hard drives this year than Seagate

    Five hundred and fifty eight million hard drives were shipped in 2009. Think about that for a moment. Five hundred and fifty eight million. Of those, 175.2 million (or 31.4%) carried the Seagate brand name while 165.2 million came from Western Digital. According to The Information Network, WD pulled ahead in the first quarter of 2010, selling 51.1 million hard drives compared to Seagate's 50.3 million sold. I guess that's big news, if you're really into hard drives, or have strong brand loyalty to the drive in your computer. Me, I don't care so much.

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  • CrunchDeal: 1TB for $70

    CrunchDeal: 1TB for $70

    Just to help you spend your paycheck today, we’ve got another CrunchDeal for you. Let’s say you’re running out of space, so you don’t have enough room to download Left 4 Dead 2. No problem, Newegg.com is selling a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB drive for $70. This is the SATA 3.0Gb/s version, with the [...]

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  • Western Digital Velociraptor SATA 3.0 hard drives are the fastest money can buy

    Western Digital Velociraptor SATA 3.0 hard drives are the fastest money can buy

    It's like Christmas morning for PC enthusiasts today. Western Digital has released its SATA 3.0 (that's a maximum transfer rate of 6.0 Gb/s, which translates to 768 MB/s) Velociraptor hard drives. The Velociraptor name basically means "OMG FAST!" when it comes to hard drives. The thing is, unlike the last time Western Digital released Velociraptor hard drives, two years ago, solid state drives are on the market, and they're clearly faster than even the fastest traditional hard drive. Doesn't matter: if you're looking for absolute, top-of-the-line performance when it comes to traditional hard drives, it looks like these new Velociraptors are the way to go.

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  • Western Digital is now shipping the Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive directly to our hearts

    Western Digital is now shipping the Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive directly to our hearts

    Western Digital here, While other companies are just announcing their large 2.5-inch drives, we've started shipping ours and wanted to thank everyone involved with the industry-leading Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive: the engineers for crafting the drive, the bean counters for pricing it well at $149, but most importantly, you, the consumer. It was you that pushed us to stuff even more storage capacity in the small 2.5-inch form factor and demanded a quiet and battery-efficient drive. Thank you.

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  • Review: Western Digital My Book 3.0

    Review: Western Digital My Book 3.0

    We looked at the 500GB USB 3.0 Seagate BlackArmor PS110 a few days back and now the Western Digital My Book 3.0 drive is on the bench. There are some important differences and similarities between the two USB 3.0 options. First, while the PS110 is a portable solution and the My Book 3.0 is a desktop external, [...]

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  • The WD MyBook line gets the USB 3.0 treatment

    The WD MyBook line gets the USB 3.0 treatment

    If you're going to buy that new USB 3.0 hub, you might as well have something to plug into it. Why not the new WD MyBook 3.0? I mean, it's damn fast, not that expensive, and looks sick.

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  • Review: WD TV Live HD Media Player

    Review: WD TV Live HD Media Player

    wdtvlivehdShort Version: Western Digital's newest addition to its growing lineup of media players, the WD TV Live, essentially picks up where its older sibling (the great WD TV) left off. With the newly added networking capabilities via a built-in Ethernet port or USB Wi-Fi adapter (sold separately), the WD TV Live has taken Western Digital's little black box to the next level. Be it photos, music, video (encoded with just about any codec under the sun), or the newly added access to YouTube, Flickr, Pandora, and Live365, the WD TV Live can handle just about any kind of media thrown its way. Overall, it is a highly capable, easy to use, and relatively affordable all-around high definition media player.

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  • Review: Western Digital My Book Essential with SmartWare backup software

    Review: Western Digital My Book Essential with SmartWare backup software

    wd-my-book-essentialShort version: Western Digital's refreshed My Book Essential external hard drive provides a simple, unobtrusive, and relatively inexpensive home backup solution. With an enormous 2TB capacity, built-in WD SmartWare software, 256-bit built-in encryption with password protection, an "illuminated capacity gauge," and a MSRP of $249.99, there is very little not to like here.

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  • Western Digital announces WD TV Live HD Media Player

    Western Digital announces WD TV Live HD Media Player

    wdfWDTV_Live-hdd Looks like those images that leaked back in August of the WD TV 2 were pretty spot on. Earlier today, Western Digital announced the newest member of its growing WD TV family, the WD TV Live.

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  • Western Digital addes e-ink displays and excitment to external hard drives

    Western Digital addes e-ink displays and excitment to external hard drives

    Have you ever wished your 1TB external hard drive would have a little screen on the outside, friend? Well, it's your lucky day because Western Digital's new line of My Book Elite and My Book Studio has just that: a 12-character e-ink screen. But act fast, everyone is going to want this!

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  • Western Digital refreshes external drives, adds auto backup and security

    Western Digital refreshes external drives, adds auto backup and security

    Western Digital has announced 5 new external hard drives of various shapes and sizes. The refreshed lineup represents WD's shift towards "smaller, smarter, and safer" storage solutions. As a result, all of these new drives come standard with built-in automatic backup software, password protection, and 256-bit hardware encryption.

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  • Western Digital announces 2TB drives, more room for pr0n

    Western Digital announces 2TB drives, more room for pr0n

    Western Digital just announced two new types of drive, both with 2TB capacities. This doesn't come as a real surprise, since hard drive capacity seems to be increasing on the same scale as CPU speed lately.

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  • Western Digital shrinks the WD TV down to a portable size with the Mini

    Western Digital shrinks the WD TV down to a portable size with the Mini

    Apparently the WD TV wasn’t small enough. The geeks at Western Digital just outed the WD TV Mini that packages most of the original into an even smaller package.

    The main difference between the original and new Mini model is that the new one doesn’t have optical or HDMI output, only component and composite. But that [...]

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