We had a chance to talk to Western Digital last week about a new hard drive technology they have coming down the pipe called Advanced Format. Ahead of the impending launch of the first Advanced Format drives, Western Digital is engaging in an education campaign about the technology, as it represents the first step in a [...]
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California-based company Western Digital has launched its new My Book Elite external hard drive series, featuring an innovative e-label. The e-label is based on the technology used in electronic paper to show information such as remaining hard drive capacity, if the drive is secure and a user-customisable label on the spine of the drive, even when [...] In addition to launching a duo of new My Book desktop storage solutions, Western Digital has unveiled a trio of new My Passport portable drives. The My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE and My Passport for Mac, all arrive today in a form factor that’s approximately 20 per cent smaller than the previous generation.
The My Passport [...] Three of the top four hard disk drive suppliers have each announced new products, covering the very small, the small and the not small at all form factors. Starting at the bottom of the heap, Toshiba has a new 1.8-inch drive range for MP3 players and the like. It offers 60 to 160GB on a single platter [...] Western Digital announced Monday two laptop drives that offer “extreme” amounts of storage: the Scorpio Blue 1TB and the Scorpio Blue 750GB. Prior to this announcement, the largest laptop hard drive available was 500GB. Scorpio Blue (Credit: Western Digital) Western Digital appears to be working on a networked version of its WD TV streaming media package. The first version is an adapter that depends upon a USB-attached external drive, onto which streaming media files are loaded. The idea is that customers will have backed up media files into an external hard drive already, so will use [...] Leapfrogging Seagate again, Western Digital has announced the world’s first 1TB 2.5-inch drive, a 3-platter Scorpio Blue.The company says it has the industry’s highest areal density forsuch drives, 333GB/platter. Two drives are available with theseplatters: a 750GB one, available now from certain distributors andresellers, and the 1TB one, available from the channel as well as beingconfigured [...] Program Index: config the target drive and to enter the matching module of the program; also there Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that it has agreed to acquire a substrate manufacturing facility located in Sarawak, Malaysia from Western Digital. The facility currently produces aluminum substrates used in hard disk drives. WD originally acquired the Sarawak facility through its purchase of Komag in 2007. “This acquisition further strengthens Hitachi GST and is [...] |
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