All Articles Tagged Western Digital

Robert Archer | 03/21 03:12 AM,

Whether it's in the home or at work, storage is an important consideration for anyone that requires a certain level of performance and functionality out of their computer network. Western Digital's (WD) new My Book Thunderbolt Duo line of products is the well-known company's latest line of storage solutions and these new drives incorporate the new data transfer technology that is currently being popularized by Apple: Thunderbolt. The drives are available in 4TB and 6TB versions, and they offer a choice of RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD hot-swapping backup… View this story

Jason Knott | 11/07 02:10 PM, 1 Comment

The October/November monsoon flooding in Thailand has made a huge impact on the production of hard drive discs for computers and other IT equipment, according to Forbes. So if you are spec'ing a home network system, make sure to check on product availability and price. According to Forbes, major plants for Western Digital and Toshiba were flooded, and facilities for Seagate and Hitachi have been shut down, though not flooded themselves. Forbes says 50 percent of all hard drive capacity has been down several weeks. The Thailand factories represent 60… View this story

Robert Archer | 05/24 03:24 AM,

There are those in the computing and IT industry that believe that cloud-based and network-based storage is the future of the market. Despite those predictions there is still a major need for local storage solutions. Western Digital's (WD) latest line of hard drive products are designed to address local storage applications. The company's new My Book Studio Edition II hard drive provides users 6TBs of storage to support computer users' ability to store large files such as HD video, high-resolution audio and photos without burdening a computer's built-in resources. The… View this story

Robert Archer | 08/25 04:56 AM,

There's no question that powerline technologies have advanced far beyond the Clapper. A good example of how far the technologies have advanced can be found in Western Digital's WD Livewire Powerline AV Network kit. Western Digital says the product is compatible with the HomePlug AV powerline networking standard and it allows CE Pros to retrofit a home with network connections by using its existing electrical outlets. The Lake Forest, Calif.-based computing company says the system offers 200Mbps of data transfer speeds and enough ports to support the connection of seven… View this story