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Western Digital's been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It's got FireWire 400/800, eSATA, USB 2.0, RAID 0 or 1, and Mac support (you can also reformat it for PCs). Looking at Western Digital's Editions page, these come equipped with all the features except for remote sharing and networking, because there's no network port.
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Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Has eSATA, Better Mac Support
Western Digital's been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It's got FireWire 400/800, eSATA, USB 2.0, RAID 0 or 1, and Mac support (you can also reformat it for PCs). Looking at Western Digital's Editions page, these come equipped with all the features except for remote sharing and networking, because there's no network port.
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Dealzmodo: 500GB Western Digital Hard Drive for $100, a Sign of Things to Come?
Buy.com has the 500GB Western Digital Elements external hard drive for $100 shipped, marked down from $140. (Around the web, this drive sells for $115-$140.) Now that Time Machine is compatible with any hard drive networked to an Airport Extreme, some of you might be interested in picking up something. This is the best deal that we could find, but we're sure you've seen better. See any deals?? [Dealhack]
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Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)
ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you're looking for a low power, low noise drive that's lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital's GreenPower (WD1000FYPS) drives could be for you. If you're looking for the absolute best in performance, then Samsung Spinpoint HD103UJ won most of the tests ExtremeTech ran. And at $260, it's actually the second cheapest drive they tested. [ExtremeTech]
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Western Digital 320GB My Passport Essential Drives: Pretty and Priced Right
Today Western Digital introduced its newly redesigned My Passport Essential drives, in capacities of 160, 250 and 320GB, that last one priced at a very pleasant $200. The shiny bus-powered drives don't pack anything unusual, but they do come with WD Sync for easy Windows backup and 128-bit encryption. [WD]
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There's never been a better time to void the warranty on your MacBook Pro and upgrade to one of those sweet 2.5" WD Scorpio 320GB drives. That was what made me throw caution to the wind and attempt a Time Machine-assisted swap. The good news is, it works as billed. You get a bit-for-bit transfer to the virgin drive with minimal fuss. The bad news is, if you don't use a little trick we discovered today, you probably won't get it to work at all.
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The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap
There's never been a better time to void the warranty on your MacBook Pro and upgrade to one of those sweet 2.5" WD Scorpio 320GB drives. That was what made me throw caution to the wind and attempt a Time Machine-assisted swap. The good news is, it works as billed. You get a bit-for-bit transfer to the virgin drive with minimal fuss. The bad news is, if you don't use a little trick we discovered today, you probably won't get it to work at all.
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Western Digital Finally Pops 320GB USB-Powered Passport Drive
When you saw the news that WD launched a 320GB Scorpio laptop drive, you knew it was only a matter of time before a bus-powered Passport external version showed up. It'll come with WD Sync software (featuring 128-bit encryption; Windows only of course), deliver 480Mbps transfer speeds, and you can pick from five colors: glossy black, glossy white, metallic red, vibrant(?) green and metallic pink. Here's the best part: the 320GB Passport will only set you back $230—or less. [WD]
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Western Digital's Greenpower Eco-Drives Go 500GB
If those 1TB Greenpower eco-friendly low-powered hard drives from Western Digital were too much space for you, they're now shipping 500GB models that conform to their Greenpower standards. At $149, they're not all that much more expensive compared with regular drives, either. [WD]
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Western Digital Ships 320GB 2.5-Inch Drives for Laptops
It's official: you can now buy a 320GB drive from WD for your laptop, and for just $200. The WD Scorpio SATA drive spins at 5400rpm and has a 8MB cache. The press release says it's "extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures." I hope that doesn't mean it's extremely loud while running at super high temperatures. The important thing is, this timing coincides with the arrival of Mac's Time Machine and the Windows Home Server, two easy ways to offload your laptop's entire contents, swap out the internal drive, then restore your old image without a lot of tinkering. I know some of you like tinkering, but this is the future. [WD]
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Western Digital Confirms 500GB My DVR Expander Drive Works With TiVo
Today Western Digital confirmed that its My DVR drive, which had previously been marketed for Scientific Atlanta boxes, was "verified compatible" with TiVo HD and TiVo Series3 DVRs. It's already for sale at Best Buy, and can now be found at TiVo.com/store, too. A 500GB My DVR Expander drive lists for $200. And according to reports, TiVo's eSATA port is ready for Western Digital's drive. (Press release after jump.) More »
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Earlier last week we brought you news of a TiVo update that provides eSata support with officially licensed HDDs. Well, Best Buy seems to have done the dirty once again, leaking what appears to be the first TiVo supported hard drive.
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Best Buy Leaks First TiVo External HDD?
Earlier last week we brought you news of a TiVo update that provides eSata support with officially licensed HDDs. Well, Best Buy seems to have done the dirty once again, leaking what appears to be the first TiVo supported hard drive.
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Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density
Today Western Digital announced that it has achieved 520 Gb/in2 areal density in an actual demonstration using its own perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)/tunneling magneto-resistive (TuMR) head technology. For those of you who are counting, that makes it the highest density ever reached using continuous media. A density of this magnitude produces a 3.5-inch hard drive storing 640 GB-per-platter and single hard drive capacities as large as 3 TB. Compare that to the current leading density of around 200 Gb/in2 being shipped high volume products like WD's 250 GB Scorpio(R) 2.5-inch drive. That's all well and good, but it looks like you will have to wait to get your hands on this technology. Current estimates put the release at around 2010.More »
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Mechanical Patent Dispute Could Result in Hard Drive Ban
Hot on the heels of yesterday's potential Australian plasma ban, comes news of the U.S. possibly banning many popular hard drives due to a patent dispute. The issue involves a patent for "dissipative ceramic bonding tips," also known as wire bonding tips, which Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, HP, and Dell either use in their own foreign manufacturing process or sell in products that were built, in countries other than the U.S., using them. According to Ars Technica, the problem at hand resides under Section 337 of the Tariff Act. More »
Western Digital follows up last Thursday's My Book announcement with 1TB My Book Studio edition for Macs with Firewire 400/800, USB 2.0 and eSATA. [Western Digital]
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A scant five months since the My Book external hard drives hit 1TB, Western Digital upped their game and doubled the storage to 2TB. The My Book World Edition 2 has remote access, UPnP support, Gigabit Ethernet support and RAID 1 capabilities. There's actually no mention at all of USB 2.0 support, so this is an Ethernet-only NAS affair. Keep this in mind as you slam down $799 for one of these. [Western Digital via Crunchgear]
Western Digital My Books Go to 2TB
A scant five months since the My Book external hard drives hit 1TB, Western Digital upped their game and doubled the storage to 2TB. The My Book World Edition 2 has remote access, UPnP support, Gigabit Ethernet support and RAID 1 capabilities. There's actually no mention at all of USB 2.0 support, so this is an Ethernet-only NAS affair. Keep this in mind as you slam down $799 for one of these. [Western Digital via Crunchgear]
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Western Digital Launches Efficient GreenPower Drives, From 320GB to 1TB
Like other companies hoping to cast a greenish hue on whirring machinery, Western Digital today unveiled GreenPower, a line of internal hard drives that focus on efficiency. That is, they use 40% less power than the competition thanks to some fancy engineering. More »
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Western Digital My Book Hard Drives Make the Jump to 1.5TB
Western Digital is kicking its My Book line of external hard drives to 1.5TB this morning. The drives can be used for anything from back up to additional storage and have various methods of connecting to your PC/Mac ranging from eSATA to USB 2.0 (depending on the model). WD also announced a new 750GB option. Pricing will range from $279 to $699 depending on the model and capacity. If 1.5TB is too small, you still have a pretty good choice of 2TB options out there. More »
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WD's Passport Portable Now Holds 250GB of Porn, Perfect for Dads and Grads
Western Digital just announced that its bus-powered $199 USB drive now has a 250GB 2.5" hard disk inside. And yeah, you got me, it doesn't just hold porn. It will also hold every TV show you ever downloaded from BitTorrent, and the three episodes of Lost you once legally purchased from iTunes. According to WD's press release, it will also suffice for all of those digital pictures and videos you've been taking. (I'm not sure I want to hear about those.) More »
