The battle between SSD’s and HDD’s are ongoing with some users wanting performance and others wanting capacity, there is of course some products that offer a built-in nand flash to use a cache system, but mostly these products are just a small hybrid of the two technologies, whereas they just cache the important/most used files […]
Western Digital announced My Cloud, external hard drive for backing up and accessing files from anywhere
Western digital are at it again and releasing more storage options for those who are looking to bring some more functionality to there basic idea of backing up stuff. The My cloud personal cloud storage will offer the basic idea of external storage but with network connectivity. Exactly like a NAS (it is a NAS). […]
Western Digital announce new My Passport Slim external drive, offering 2TB storage, Metal enclosure and 256-bit hardware level encryption
Western digital are at it again and of course we mean they are releasing another storage option. The new My Passport Slim will come in both 1TB and 2TB capacity options and is covered in a metal housing along with USB 3.0 and hardware level encryption. The new drives are available right away from the […]
Western Digital announce Red 2.5-inch 1TB NAS hard drive and 4TB 3.5-inch hard drive
Western Digital have unveiled a new line of WD RED hard drives. First up we have the 2.50-inch form faxtor that is being aimed at NAS used. It will come with both 750GB and 1TB storage capacities. Also announced is the 4TB 3.5-inch hard drive which offers a higer capacity than the previous offerings. […]
Western Digital shipping the world’s thinnest 1TB Hard Drive, just 7mm thick
Western digital are outing their latest 2.5-inch hard drive will be be coming in at just 7mm thick and house 1TB of Storage. The new hard drive is shipping now and will be available from most retailers for around €130/$139/£110 give or take. Below are some of the features that the new drive will include. […]
Western Digital and SanDisk join forces for Hybrid storage, launching 2.5-inch SSHD to OEMS
Western Digital and SanDisk have teamed up to release an SSHD together. Using a 500GB WD Black hard drive combined with SanDisk ISSD stoage as cache. Both companies are pushing to bring the best of both worlds when it comes to typical platter hard drives for cheap storage and SSD for amazing speed. “I am delighted for […]
Seagate announce the first 1TB per patter 4TB hard drive
Seagate today have announced the words first 1TB per platter 4TB hard drive, totaling 4 platters to make nice and neat 4 TB hard drive (simple right?). The new drive offers speeds around the 145MB/S making it a decent performing piece of storage/capacity. The price tag for the drive is set at around € 180/$190. The new 1TB per […]
Review: Western Digital 4TB Hard Drive
Right now SSD’s are are getting bigger, faster and cheaper, making them an easy decision in any new rig. However, their size is nowhere near that of current hard drives and while we have seen 4TB hard drives before, the WD4001FAEX from Western Digital offers decent performance and an impressive 5 year warranty, So […]
Western Digital launch 4TB Black Hard Drive
Western digital have just increased the capacity of their WD Black series drives. Introducing the 4TB hard drive with 7,200 RPM and 64MB of cache and of course SATA 6Gbps connection. The new hard drive will set you back around €400 or so. The hard drive is available for order immediately and you can check out more […]
Western Digital announce RS SAS and RE SATA 4TB hard drives
Western digital today have announced a new series of SAS and SATA hard drives. The new series of storage devices called the WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA come in a range of capacities which are 1 TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB on the SAS side and 2/3/4 TB on the SATA side. The […]