eRacks Open Source Systems has integrated the latest 4TB Western Digital and Seagate drives into their NAS50 network attached file server. Users can now store up to 1.6 petabytes in a customized two rack system. The NAS50 will enable users ...
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The world's largest consumer tech show last week was mostly about new ultra-high-definition TVs, with four times the pixel resolution of current 1080p HDTV, notebooks, phones, wireless headphones and speakers and thousands of accessory ...
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WD,a Western Digital company,and a world leader in external storage and solutions for today's connected life,today unveils the new My Net AC1300 HD Dual-Band Router and My Net AC Bridge as the latest additions to the acclaimed My Net family ...
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Asustek is aiming for the TV market with the introduction of an Internet streaming box called Qube, which will run on Google TV software. The box will enable streaming of movies and TV shows from Google Play, Netflix, Amazon and HBO, Asus ...
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A perennial runner-up in the enterprise HDD market,Western Digital(WD)is set to release a line of helium-filled drives,a move that could boost its global market share to the top spot,according to IHS. The helium-filled data center drives ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...
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US chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon. It said Marvell ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital today announced what it is calling its smallest external hard disk drive, the 500GB My Passport Edge, for both Macs and PCs. The new drives are 4.34 inches long by 3.2-inches wide and .5-inches thick. The ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital on Monday announced what it said is the industry's thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks, a 5mm-thick model with 500GB of storage capacity. The drives, equivalent to about one-fifth of an inch thick with a ...
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The company that invented NAND flash, Toshiba, plans to become the third hard drive manufacturer to offer a hybrid drive. Hybrids combine a spinning disk with flash cache to offer near solid-state drive (SSD) performance at a fraction ...
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Western Digital Thursday unveiled an upgraded line of 1TB to 4TB 3.5-in hard drives for data centers. WD had released another 4TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000 made by its Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) unit, in ...
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Toshiba today released its smallest external hard drive, a device that trumps Western Digital's smallest drive, which was released earlier this month. Toshiba's new Canvio Slim hard drive. Like WD's new My Passport Edge, Toshiba's ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it will soon begin mass production of a new line of hybrid disk drives equipped with flash memory, touting them as a low-cost replacement for the solid-state drives used in ultrabook and laptop computers. Hybrid ...
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Western Digital (WD) today announced it was bringing a range of routers to the market, signalling a new direction for the company best known for its storage. The product line named My Net is WD’s first foray into the networking ...
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Western Digital (WD) today introduced new, free collaboration and file management features -- including Dropbox integration -- in the next generation of its WD 2go mobile app for the company's personal cloud products. The consumer ...
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