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Western Digital Debuts Serial ATA Hard Disks
News Western Digital wants to dig its talons into business data. Our entrance into the enterprise market marks the next step in our growth," Arif Shakeel, Western Digital's president, said in a statement. By comparison, Western Digital's top-of-the-line...
[February 11, 2003, 8:30]
Western Digital Boosted By Notebook Sales
News The hard disk drive market got another boost on Thursday when supplier Western Digital released a very strong set of sales figures for the last three months of 2006. Western Digital said that sales were boosted by growing market areas such as sales...
[January 26, 2007, 15:39]
Western Digital Drives Into High-end
News Western Digital has come back from the brink it found itself overlooking not five years ago with an unfashionable blend: ex-IBM management and customer service. The US firm announced 2.1Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch SCSI-3 drives on Wednesday in its first...
[July 31, 1996, 15:40]
Western Digital Offers New Caviar Platter
News Western Digital can be contacted by telephone on 01372-360055. The three-platter 3.5-inch WD Caviar 4Gb drive will be followed by one and two platter models later, starting with a 1.2Gb single-platter model.
[December 11, 1996, 13:34]
Western Digital Debuts 3-inch Hard Drive
News Western Digital (WD) has shown its plans for changing the face of portable PC hard disk storage by formally announcing a family of 3-inch drives. Western Digital can be contacted by telephone on 01372-360055.
[December 4, 1996, 12:22]
Western Digital Plans 3-inch Hard Drive
News Western Digital (WD) surprised observers yesterday by saying it plans to expand its disk drive coverage at the mobile end of the market with a new form factor, as well as entering the SCSI server/workstation market for the first time.
[September 25, 1996, 16:18]
250GB Western Digital HD Issues
Forum Serial ATA Western Digital Caviar (7200rpm) with a capacity of 250GB to home into my system build [I won't bore with the rest of the set-up, unless anybody needs the extra information? Western Digital provide a partitioning tool together with a...
[March 22, 2006, 7:45]
Hard Drive Handles Multiple Memory Cards
News Western Digital on Tuesday unveiled a plug-in hard drive that reads eight memory card types, in a sign that the external drive market is heating up. The Media Center product, like several other Western Digital external hard drives making their...
[January 7, 2004, 12:15]
Hard Drive Maker Goes Mini
News Hard drive maker Western Digital announced on Wednesday that it will be entering the mini hard drive market in the second quarter, when it begins shipping a one-inch product. Western Digital's one-inch drives will be available as CompactFlash Type...
[January 20, 2005, 8:40]
Hard-drive Maker Notes Gap In Market
News Western Digital is eyeing an entry into the market for hard drives used in notebook PCs. The California-based hard-drive manufacturer, which offers disks for desktop PCs and servers, has begun development work on a new line of mobile drives and...
[June 20, 2003, 14:10]
World's First Transparent Hard Drive Launched
News Aimed at appealing to the geek in all technology folk, Western Digital launched its Raptor X 150GB serial ATA drive at the Conusmer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, complete with a see-through top to display the inner workings of this modern, high...
[January 9, 2006, 11:15]
Enthusiasts Get Raptor Instead Of Caviar
News It offers less storage capacity than Western Digital's Caviar line of desktop drives, which range from 30GB to 250GB. For those customers, the Raptor line will deliver data much more quickly than a standard desktop hard drive due to a combination...
[May 13, 2003, 15:20]
'Drivezilla' Has Monster 200GB Storage
News Western Digital's 200GB "Drivezilla" is about to stomp its way into desktop PCs. Western Digital created Drivezilla by increasing the areal density, or the amount of data its drives can store per square inch.
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's Windows Media Player. While the music stores are restricted to the British and Western European markets, analysts...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
Drive Makers Suffer, Seagate Closes Plant
News It's not a lack of demand that's plaguing major disk-drive vendors such as Seagate, Quantum Corp.and Western Digital Corp. The same was true for Quantum and Western Digital, which have both issued profit warnings in light of diminishing profit...
[December 11, 1997, 11:35]
Mobile-phone Payments To Hit £151bn By 2013
News The analyst said Western Europe is currently dominated by digital goods and services sold via SMS, while, in the Far East region, Japan is well established in physical goods sales over the mobile web.
[July 2, 2008, 9:10]
US Report: Interactive-TV Deals In The Works
News Still, some analysts suggest the company might make those plans clearer at the Western Show, possibly by announcing a new "AOL Channel" that could run on cable television and other platforms. These and other pressing questions will be the talk of...
[December 2, 1998, 6:10]
Hybrid Hard Drive Alliance Formed
News Although the Alliance includes five of the six biggest hard drive manufacturers, it does not include Western Digital — the second largest vendor, according to recent market share figures.A Western Digital spokesperson couldn't immediately say why...
[January 4, 2007, 16:10]
Seagate Takes $300m Charge
News It's not a lack of demand that's plaguing major disk-drive vendors such as Seagate, Quantum Corp.and Western Digital Corp. The same was true for Quantum and Western Digital, both of which have issued profit warnings in light of diminishing profit...
[January 8, 1998, 10:29]
Grim Times For Hard Drives
News CSFB gave "neutral" ratings to Maxtor and Seagate Technology and an "outperform" rating to Western Digital. Because of its concentrated product line, which is focused on desktop PC drives, Western Digital is somewhat insulated from the fallout in...
[May 28, 2004, 9:50]
