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Western Digital Introduces the My Passport Edge Portable Hard Drive

WD, a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), today introduced its newest version of My Passport® line of portable hard drives for PC and Mac with the debut of My Passport Edge™. The My Passport Edge and My Passport Edge for Mac® feature 500 GB of storage and a USB 3.0 interface for fast read/write speeds to help consumers effectively manage, share and enjoy digital content everywhere they go. Its sleek, ultra-slim design makes transport easy and convenient while a variety of security features protects the drive’s content from unauthorized access.

Western Digital Introduces Its Fastest My Book External HDD System Ever

WD®, a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), and a world leader in external storage and connected home solutions, is combining two high-speed technologies to produce one of the fastest and most robust dual-storage systems ever offered. Supported by the Mac OS X operating system, the new My Book® VelociRaptor™ Duo dual-drive storage system becomes the ultimate storage drive for performance hungry Mac computer users and creative professionals.

Western Digital TV Live Hub Review

For most people their TV is the center of entertainment in the living room.  You watch cable television on it, you play your video game consoles on it and you watch DVD and Blu-ray movies on it.  We all know there are devices for that, but what about all of the media you have on your PC?  All the videos you have taken, shows you have downloaded and even the photos you have.  No one wants to sit around a small computer screen and watch these.  This is where the Western Digital TV Live Hub comes in.  It is a HD media player that supports pretty much any file type and has a 1TB hard drive for all of your media.  Let’s take a look an see what Western Digital has brought to the table in the HD media player market!

Western Digital My Book 3.0 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Review

External hard drives are great, especially for people who do not want to open their system up to add more storage.  They are also very useful for people whose main system is a laptop and adding extra internal storage is not an option.  Western Digital is one of the big storage companies we all know and their My Book drives have been out for quite a while.  They have recently released the My Book 3.0 drives, which feature SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity.  Today we will be checking out the 1TB version of the drive, let’s see if it is perfect for your storage needs.

WD Introduces 6 TB External Hard Drive to Support Increased HD Content Creation by Creative Pros and Mac® Enthusiasts

IRVINE, Calif., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its My Book® Studio Edition™ II dual-drive storage system with a massive 6 terabytes (TB) of storage to meet the capacity needs of today’s creative pros and Mac® enthusiasts who create, store, edit and archive large HD video and photo files. The new capacity provides users 33 percent more storage than the previous capacity, while maintaining the same footprint.

Combining its extended 6 TB storage capacity and compatibility with Apple® Time Machine®, the new My Book Studio Edition II drive becomes an instant storage solution for a variety of professions including art and design, photography, legal and medical, and a host of other small businesses.

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review

Portable storage has always been very popular, it is nice having a hard drive that you can easily take with you anywhere on the go.  Western Digital is no stranger to portable storage solutions, they have been marking portable solutions for a while now.  With technology advancing and USB 3.0 becoming very popular Western Digital has released versions of its My Passport drives that support USB 3.0.  Today we will be looking at the 1TB USB 3.0 My Passport Essential SE drive.

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive Review

Over the past year we have looked at quite a number of solid state drives.  The surprising thing is that these drives have been from companies that are not known for storage products.  They have mainly been from memory companies like OCZ, Corsair and Crucial.  It is about time one of the big storage companies we all know stepped up and released a solid state drive.  Well today we have one such drive from Western Digital.  Today we will be taking a look at the SiliconEdge Blue 256GB solid state drive.  This drive features read speeds of up to 250MB/s and write speeds of up to 170MB/s.  Let’s take a look…

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (WD1002FAEX) SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive Review

With all of the solid state hard drives that came out this year it seems like traditional hard drives sort of took a back seat, unless you were looking to get a large capacity drive.  One thing that many people may have overlooked was the availability of SATA 6GB/s drives.  A SATA 6GB/s drive has double the transfer rate (6GB/s compared to 3GB/s) as the SATA II drive that is currently in your system.  Today we will be taking a look at the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive and see how it compares to some other SATA drives.  Let’s check it out!

WD Adds Variety of New Features to Its WD TV® Live™ Plus and WD TV Live Media Players

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today announced the addition of several entertainment and social sites to the popular WD TV® media player family. WD TV Live™ (photo) and WD TV Live Plus media player (photo) customers will now be able to connect with their friends and family through Facebook® – including uploading photos and videos, sharing their status, viewing their wall and getting the latest updates from their News Feed – among other entertainment choices, all from their HDTV. Meanwhile, WD TV Live Plus media player customers in the U.S. can now instantly rent or purchase the newest movie releases the same day they become available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ through the Blockbuster® On Demand service.

WD(R) Announces New High Speed Solid State Drives

LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD® (NYSE: WDC) today announced that the company is shipping its new high performance WD SiliconDrive® N1x 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD) family. The new SSDs feature fast read/write speeds in high capacities and are designed for embedded system OEM applications that require superior performance, high reliability and long product life. The single-level cell (SLC) -based WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs are an ideal storage solution for a wide range of embedded system OEM applications in growing markets such as automotive and transportation, data center, communications infrastructure, video surveillance and industrial automation.  The new WD SiliconDrive N1x family of products complements the recently announced multi-level cell (MLC) -based WD SiliconEdge™ Blue™ SSDs, which offer a cost-effective alternative for less-demanding OEM applications while still providing high read/write speeds and high random write IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) performance.