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more about #wd jsparakov: Western Digital: on the frontier of cutting-edge porn storage technology. edit... sorry, I meant family photos and HD camcorder footage of my dog. more » orbitbreak: Doesn't formatting at smaller cluster size always mean more space, but at a drop in performance for reading bigger files? more » Nitesh Singh: Polishing brass on the titanic. WD, just start working on affordable SSD's for the masses, mmkay? more » radiochief: Yeh. I got one of the these units. I bought it on 10/29/2009. I kept in in-box for a few weeks to see if any competitor's products became cheaper. So... more » AlexSea: just curious, would a 5400rpm HD (in an enclosure) connected through usb 2.0 be enough to drive 1080p? that is the nerdiest sentence i've ever typed... more » Nathan Obbards: I wondered why you didn't run this in your comparison tests as I have heard so many people swear by it. more » bonedog73: Will any of these give me Hulu on my TV? I need something that will do that. I have a roku and ps3. more » Cash907Censored: I got my dad the WD HD TV last Christmas, and he loves it. I love it because it just works right out of the box and plays every format I throw at it, ... more » KassiaHaoe: Why is it called "Apple TV Killers" if you think Apple TV is a poor product? more » ossuary: Good article. I have been looking over this info for a while now and glad to see it collected. i like the idea of the Patriot, BUT I just don't see ... more » Unknown2U: This is what I plan to do. Currently I rent 2 HD-DVRs for $16 a month each. My PC has Windows 7, I purchase this thing next year: [www.cetoncorp.com]... more » diamonddnice: do you really need to kill apple tv? its not like it's popular like an ipod. Isnt' this kinda like saying, "which soft drink will be the Fresca killer... more » Vermifuge: Out of these 5 "Apple TV Killers" do any of them work with the iTunes store? #hdmediaplayers more » dallasmay: The best ATV Killer Ever [store.apple.com] #hdmediaplayers more » RoboBagins: The more I heard about this, the better deal it sounds to build a nettop XBMC [lifehacker.com] #hdmediaplayers more » Justin Paulson: Can you really call it an AppleTV killer when the thing was barely breathing anyway? #hdmediaplayers more » Canoehead: Wish this had been out before - would have saved some bucks over the Popcorn Hour. more » Noobs-R-Us: Wait for the new Intel/Apple optical cabled drives next year. It will put USB 3/Firewire 800 to shame. more » otko: Seagate vs WD. Which is better? Is it a matter of preference or is there an actual difference in stability? more » chaos215bar2000: Why would a larger drive be slower? I would think that packing the bits closer together would make it faster. more » -
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Western Digital Advanced Format Gives You 11 Percent More Hard Drive Space
Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space. More » -
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Asus O!Play Review: Best-Priced HD Video Player Is the New Champ
Battlemodos give you a clear sense of what's good and bad in a gadget category, but there's no way to include everything. Consider the $99 Asus O!Play the new champ of HD video players—better late than never. More » -
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HD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers
When Apple TV 3.0 came out, we were unimpressed. Readers asked what else they could use to play their many videos. Here are five nice ones for your needs—nearly all cost less, and do more, than ATV. UPDATED More » -
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Now Available
Western Digital's update to the TV Live adds support for some essential streaming standards. More » -
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Quick Test: Seagate's 1TB Portable FreeAgent Go
The season of the 1TB bus-powered USB drive is upon us. WD was first; now Seagate is shipping the FreeAgent Go, a chunky SOB—three platters worth of storage powered and connected by one skinny cable. More » -
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WD Puts E-Labels on My Book Elite and Studio, Includes Dock With My Passport Elite Portable Drive
Hard drives have become so generic and commoditized, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD's My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock. More » -
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WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
I seriously need the new WD Scorpio one terabyte drive. I want to be able to tote around all my desktop data, without any external drives hanging around, and $250 seems like a little price to pay for that. More » -
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My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
The Gadget: My Book World Edition II, a 4TB NAS in RAID configuration—in other words, a small networked hard drive with a ton of secure storage. More » -
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Western Digital's My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB of RAID Network Storage
WD's new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. More » -
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WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces
WD's My Book Studio Edition II now comes with a pair of 2TB drives and a choice of four interfaces: USB 2.0, eSATA, FireWire 400 and FW800. Having 4TB plus all those options'll cost you, though: $650 MSRP. [Western Digital] -
#tivo
TiVo Will Not Approve (or Even Test) Seagate Showcase and Other DVR Expanders
I don't know if this is a pro-Western Digital story or an anti-TiVo story, but I just learned that the companies are so cozy together, DVR expanders from Seagate or others are officially blocked. More » -
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Western Digital 2TB My Book World Drive Uses One Single 2TB Disk
Western Digital's hit 2TB on their external drives before, but this is the first time they've done it using one single 2TB disk. More » -
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Western Digital ShareSpace 4TB Gigabit NAS Lightning Review
The Gadget: Western Digital's ShareSpace Storage is a steely, cubular vault of NAS with fast Gigabit ethernet that brings enterprise-level centralized storage down to the small business and deathcore nerd space, with 2TB or 4TB capacities in multiple RAID configurations out of the box. More »
