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Western Digital ShareSpace 4TB Gigabit NAS Lightning Review

The Gadget: Western Digital's ShareSpace Storage is a steely, cubular vault of NAS with fast Gigabit ethernet that brings enterprise-level centralized storage down to the small business and deathcore nerd space, with 2TB or 4TB capacities in multiple RAID configurations out of the box. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By matt buchanan
11,429 views, 44 comments

Latest by Ben Zvan: @MikeSWelch: How about semi-pro? I like that much better. Pro-am: maybe, but no. more »

reviews

Lightning Review: Western Digital's 320GB 7200RPM Scorpio Black Laptop Drive

The Product: Western Digital Scorpio Black—A 2.5" SATA laptop drive that runs at 7200RPM in sizes up to 320GB. It's the best combination of speed and size of any notebook drive on the market today. And it's got a really cool name. More »

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3:00 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
15,762 views, 44 comments

Latest by BessSaffron: i just bought this HD at best buy for 199 and did the upgrade in 15 minutes. some notes on more »

question of the day

Question of the Day: Which Hard Drives Have Crashed On You?

Today when I wrote up a WD RAID drive, the comment boxes were flooded with WD gripes. The funny thing is, the reverse happened when we wrote about Seagate a while ago. And Buchanan won't shut up about Hitachi's infamous "Death Star" drives. Are all drives equally prone to fail, or are there some makers who get it right more often than others? Yes, we would like you to share your most heart-wrenching drive crash stories, if you've finally got up the courage to talk about it. But first: More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Wilson Rothman
18,326 views, 205 comments

Latest by KentAllard: I've never had a Seagate or WD problem, but I've had problems with two Maxtors. more »

storage

WD MyBook Mirror Edition: Nothing Says "Safe" Like a Personal 2TB RAID Drive

WD just launched a drive that looks awfully familiar: Because the WD MyBook Mirror Edition houses two 3.5" GreenPower drives—in this case either 500GB or 1TB each—it uses the same case as the networked MyBook World Edition. But this one is just for you, and you alone. The Mirror, which costs $550 for 2TB version and $290 for a single TB, has only a USB 2.0 jack on the back. It comes Windows-formatted (though there's also one for Macs). As its name suggests, it comes RAID 1 (mirror) configured, but it can be set for striping instead, if that's how your geek flag flies. [Western Digital]

9:54 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,363 views, 63 comments

Latest by Truth Bringer :D: @harshmellow: Note - Maxtor is now owned by Seagate, so their quality should be much better now. I've been a more »

hard drives

Western Digital Researching 20,000RPM Hard Disk to Fight Solid State Drives

According to blog Bit-Tech.net, sources in the hard drive industry say that Western Digital (maker of the old world's fastest hard drive) "is working on a 20,000RPM Raptor hard drive to combat" Solid State Drives, since these are going to "be affordable in the next 12 or 18 months." The new Raptor will be a 2.5-inch drive inside a 3.5-inch custom box designed to make it "silent," since a 20,000RPM HD could probably make your ears bleed after a few minutes at fulll speed. But can a mechanical drive compete against solid state? More »

7:59 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
7,583 views, 41 comments

Latest by wsnideman: This just tells us that WD will go kicking and screaming into oblivion. They will either adapt or get more »

storage

WD Joins 7200rpm Club with 320GB 2.5-Inch Scorpio Black Drives

Today Western Digital announced its Scorpio Black 2.5" drive line, which reach 7200rpm, though at 5400rpm power demands. Like certain Fujitsu and Hitachi drives announced earlier this year, the speedy drives will ship in capacities from 80GB up to 320GB. The top model, with built-in free-fall sensor for drive protection, costs $250. [WD]

8:21 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,098 views, 8 comments

Latest by bms: When, when, when..... more »

hard drives

Western Digital Velociraptor Is New "Fastest Hard Drive Ever"

Western Digital has announced the Velociraptor ($300 retail), their latest and greatest in speedy storage. Connecting through 3GB/s SATA, the 300GB, 10,000RPM Velociraptor is actually a 2.5" hard drive with a massive "Icepack" heatsink that makes it large enough to fit in a 3.5" bay. Maximum PC already got their hands on a preproduction unit. So how fast was it? Real fast. More »

9:43 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Mark Wilson
28,091 views, 52 comments

Latest by Pyao lyang shen: **takes off flying, aerial lift off!** more »

peripherals

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Has eSATA, Better Mac Support

Western Digital's been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It's got FireWire 400/800, eSATA, USB 2.0, RAID 0 or 1, and Mac support (you can also reformat it for PCs). Looking at Western Digital's Editions page, these come equipped with all the features except for remote sharing and networking, because there's no network port. More »

1:15 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Jason Chen
11,464 views, 34 comments

Latest by The Brain: I've got some of the 500's and I've got a 1TB. I don't like the TB drives because they house more »

dealzmodo

Dealzmodo: 500GB Western Digital Hard Drive for $100, a Sign of Things to Come?

Buy.com has the 500GB Western Digital Elements external hard drive for $100 shipped, marked down from $140. (Around the web, this drive sells for $115-$140.) Now that Time Machine is compatible with any hard drive networked to an Airport Extreme, some of you might be interested in picking up something. This is the best deal that we could find, but we're sure you've seen better. See any deals?? [Dealhack]

5:16 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Benny Goldman
10,606 views, 44 comments

Latest by my favorite car is a motorcycle: I may be the only one, but every Western Digital external drive i've ever used was slower than molasses in more »

hard drives

Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)

ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you're looking for a low power, low noise drive that's lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital's GreenPower (WD1000FYPS) drives could be for you. If you're looking for the absolute best in performance, then Samsung Spinpoint HD103UJ won most of the tests ExtremeTech ran. And at $260, it's actually the second cheapest drive they tested. [ExtremeTech]

2:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Jason Chen
13,257 views, 29 comments

Latest by MrDisco1: I must voice my strong disagreement with the reviewer. My Samsung F1 1TB drive, all of 20 days old, died. more »