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 ...
Tags: Ultrabooks, hybrid drive, storage capacity, spinning disk, NAND flash
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 ...
Tags: WD, upgraded line, hard drives, data centers
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 ...
Tags: Toshiba, smallest external hard drive, device, Western Digital
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 ...
Tags: Western Digital, router, storage, networking
Golden Systems Middle East (GSME) has announced that it is looking to expand its business by signing on new vendors and channel partners at GITEX. The distributor plans to promote its vendor partners' products, launch new products and ...
Tags: GITEX, Golden Systems Middle East
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 ...
Tags: Western Digital, collaboration, file management features
Western Digital today released a 4TB version of its highest performance desktop drive,the WD Black. The new drive has twice the available capacity and its dual processor has double performance of its predecessor.The 4TB WD Black is a ...
Tags: WD, 4TB drive, WD4001FAEX, Lucas Mearian
Western Digital today introduced a new version of its My Book Studio desktop drive for Mac OS X systems that offers USB 3.0 connectivity and as much as 4TB of storage capacity in a single drive. Drives with USB 3.0,also known as ...
Tags: Western Digital, My Book Studio desktop, Mac OS X systems
With the introduction of the My Book VelociRaptor Duo,Western Digital adds another Thunderbolt-ready model to its growing line of My Book desktop storage devices.The VelociRaptor Duo takes Western Digital's My Book Thunderbolt Duo and gives ...
Tags: My Book VelociRaptor Duo, desktop storage devices, solid state drives
Computerworld-For more than 50 years,hard disk drives have run on air.That's about to change. Western Digital is preparing to launch a line of hard drives filled with helium gas that is said to drastically reduce internal friction and ...
Western Digital(WD)today released a portable external drive for Macs and a dual-disk external desktop backup drive that it claims is faster than a solid-state drive(SSD). WD announced the My Book VelociRaptor Duo desktop backup drive and ...
Tags: WD, SSD, hard drive, dual-disk
Computerworld - Seagate's stock price dropped 8% today after the company announced it expects weak first-quarter performance based on slowing PC sales. The news followed a lack-luster quarter, which Seagate reported yesterday. Seagate ...
Tags: Stocks, weak first-quarter, performance
After devastating monsoonal floods in Thailand shut down several of Western Digital's key disk drive plants,drastically hurting its revenue and market standing,WD this week reported record financial results for 2012. According to market ...
Tags: Western Digital, Thailand, disk drive market, ultrabooks
After 38 years of gardening, and several working as a professional landscaper, I have worked out what are the most essential tools you might need for your gardening efforts. Part two to the equation is how best to maintain your gardening ...
Tags: Learning Center, garden tool
High commodity prices have led to a spike in machinery buying on Midwest farms. We asked the full-line equipment manufacturers what industry trends they see among their customers. They came back with seven clear machinery-buying trends. ...
Tags: industry trends, machinery