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Western Digital ships high-speed 2TB hard drive
News Western Digital has begun shipping high-performance versions of the relatively low-performance 2TB hard drives it introduced in May. The new 2TB drives, announced on Tuesday, are the Western Digital Caviar Black and Western Digital RE4.
[September 3, 2009, 14:57]
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 Media Center 250GB review
Reviews Western Digital includes a stand that lets you set the drive on its side to save space on your desk. The Dantz Retrospect Express software that Western Digital bundles to take care of backup chores installed easily as well, although Retrospect has...
[October 22, 2004, 12:20]
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 Passport USB Hard Drive review
Reviews Western Digital preloads some software on the drive, including Google's desktop software, WD Sync synchronisation-and-encryption software, and an electronic version of the included quick-start guide. Overall, the Western Digital Passport is a great...
[September 18, 2006, 9:20]
Western Digital launches 2TB hard drive
News Western Digital has launched the first 2TB internal hard disk drive, as the latest addition to its WD Caviar Green series. Caviar Green is Western Digital's range of "environmentally friendly" HDDs. Western Digital claims this results in a saving...
[January 27, 2009, 16:01]
Western Digital buys its way into SSD market
News Western Digital on Monday announced it has acquired solid-state drive maker SiliconSystems for $65m (£45). Western Digital has a strong presence in the notebook industry with its 2.5-inch drives, but not the rapidly expanding netbook segment.
[March 31, 2009, 15:57]
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 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 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 releases 1TB laptop hard drive
News Western Digital on Monday announced two laptop drives that offer "extreme" amounts of storage: the Scorpio Blue 1TB and the Scorpio Blue 750GB. Prior to this announcement, the largest laptop hard drive available was 500GB.
[July 28, 2009, 8:53]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
'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]
Dissecting a hard drive review
Reviews The 160GB 'Scorpio' 2.5in.hard disk drive is Western Digital's most recent release to the mobile market. In many notebooks, 'the disk drive is eighteen inches from your ear' acording to Ashley Lo, Western Digital's senior director of customer...
[November 14, 2007, 7:08]
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]
