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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 »Now Available
Western Digital's update to the TV Live adds support for some essential streaming standards. More »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 »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 »WD's Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring Better Security and Incremental Backups
Western Digital's new line of hard drives have the expected upgrades (higher capacity, smaller size) but also feature tough-as-nails hardware security and incremental backups. More »Leaked Western Digital TV-2 Media Player Reveals Modest Upgrades, Codec Support
Western Digital's decent WD TV was a moderately priced 1080p-pumping media player at $130. WD, apparently content to not mess with success, is preparing a slight feature update in the upcoming TV-2. More »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 »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 »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 »Western Digital's SiliconDrive III Lineup Are Their First SSD Offerings
Western Digital just made their first move into the SSD world by announcing that their now shipping the SiliconDrive III lineup (presumably to OEMs), promising storage capacities up to 120 GB and read/write speeds of 100 and 80 MB/sec, respectively. More »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 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 »Best Buy Sells Egregiously Crappy, 9-Year-Old Hard Drive As New, Then Refuses Refund
Best Buy customer Jon purchased a brand-new Western Digital hard drive for store pickup, but when he opened the (sealed) package at home, he found a 30GB, near-decade-old product instead. Best Buy's reaction? "Tough luck." More »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 »Western Digital's 8TB ShareSpace NAS is One Beast of a Storage Hub
Western Digital's new 8TB ShareSpace NAS is a monster of a storage system for you media hoarders who want to share your good between multiple computers. More »Western Digital WD20WEADS Is the First 2TB Internal Drive
Remember when 1TB, 3.5-inch drives were all the rage? Well those days are over, as Western Digital has released their 2TB Caviar Green, available now for $299. More »Giz Explains: Everything You Need to Know About Hard Drives
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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 »