The race for increased capacity continues, and while we have seen 8TB sizes and larger before: the first bunch of drives to launch with those sizes typically included some drawbacks with performance. Western Digital’s Red series has always offered excellent performance, and we would expect nothing less from their new 8TB drives. So lets […]
Western Digital aquiring SanDisk for $19 Billion
It was recently reported that SanDisk were looking to be acquired by another company, and Western Digital have stepped up and taken that request. The largest hard drive manufacturer is now set to buy Sandisk and nice hefty $19 Billion price tag. SanDisk is also one of the largest storage manufactures, but their business is […]
Review: Western Digital My Cloud EX2100 NAS
Flash drives, memory cards, cloud storage and more. these are all great ways of sharing files across computers, but they’re neither fast or big enough for a business needs. This is where a NAS comes into play. Network Attached Storage (NAS) brings you local or online storage by connecting hard drives to your network. The NAS […]
Review: Western Digital 6TB Red
Up until recently, if you wanted to pick up a Western digital hard drive, your max capacity would have been 4TB. As the years roll on, the R&D behind the scenes continues on and now we have new capacities. Rather than jump to just an extra 1TB over the current offering, WD are now offering […]
Review: Western Digital 4TB Red Pro
The WD Red series has been around for awhile now. These drives were aimed at 24×7 use and offered performance and scalability to those who needed it. We took a look at pair of 4TB WD RED’s inside the My Boo Duo and you can check out the review of that here. A couple of […]
Review: Western Digital My Book Duo
Storage is one of those fundamental needs when it comes to computing and even more so when we are taking about business orientated storage. External storage can be just as important and allows for expansion beyond the physical means already available, and in some cases adds more security as well. Up for review is the My […]
Western Digital launch 5TB and 6TB hard drives and new WD Red Pro series
Western Digital have just announced new capacities of hard drives that will be joining the WD Red and WD Green series. Now coming in both 5TB and 6TB capacities. The new WD Red drives will now sport NASware 3.0 technology which for the WD Red series includes 8 bay NAS support. Pricing on the new WD Red […]
Review: Western Digital 4TB Purple Hard Drive
When selecting the type of hard drive you need for a specific task, you would need to get out the specs and see how it would suit, but most hard drive manufacturers have a color system to determined their hard drive series. Western Digital have added a new color series and it’s aimed at video surveillance. […]
Western Digital announce My Cloud EX2: 2-bay high performance NAS
Western Digital have just announced the MY Cloud EX2, which is a new 2-bay network attached storage (NAS), which joins the My Cloud Ex4 Range of devices giving users another, cheaper option for backing up/storing data to access across the world. The new NAS comes in a few different sizes including 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB, […]
Review: Western Digital Black² 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD Dual Drive
The battle between SSD’s and HDD is still ongoing and it pretty much comes down to two things, speed over capacity and then just overall cost, with SSD’s coming down in price practically each week, the battle pretty much then becomes just about speed vs capacity. Now for desktop users, this really is not an […]