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Deals for May 17: 1TB Western Digital External $74May 17, 2010 - in News
Top Deals on WD 1TB HDD, Sony Cyber-shot 12MP camera and HP 18.4" Quad Core laptop.
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Deals for April 22: SSDs, Xbox 360 Elites, MoreApr 22, 2010 - in News
Get your SSD fix with a Western Digital SiliconEdge. Nothing gives your system a performance boost quite like moving from an old spinning HDD to a new SSD.
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Spring 2010 Solid State Drive Roundup, Part 2Apr 13, 2010 - in Reviews
In part one of our SSD roundup, we looked at drives from Crucial, OCZ, Intel, Solidata, and Toshiba. To those results, we're adding Crucial's first 6 Gb/s SSD, WD's first SSD, and Kingston's 128GB SSDNow V-series, along with 'fresh' and 'used' scores.
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WD Introduces Fastest Ever VelociRaptor HDDsApr 7, 2010 - in News
Not ready to go SSD? Then these could fill your need for speed.
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VelociRaptor Returns: 6Gb/s, 600GB, And 10,000 RPMApr 6, 2010 - in Reviews
Western Digital is in the process of reinventing its Raptor product line, delivering improved performance and a new 600GB capacity ceiling. In today's review, we compare it to its predecessor and the other popular magnetic drives populating the market.
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Eight Portable Hard Drives Compared: USB 2.0 Lives OnApr 2, 2010 - in Reviews
Eight different portable hard drives, spanning everything from 250GB to 1TB and centering on 2.5” and 1.8” form factors, compete against each other based on design and functionality. Similar though they seem, they're far from equal under the hood.
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WD's New 750 GB 2.5" HDD On The WayMar 30, 2010 - in News
Western Digital has shipped its new 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue laptop HDD.
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WD Launches SLC-based SSD for Heavy Duty UseMar 4, 2010 - in News
This SSD has the SLC for your serious needs.
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HDDs, The Next Generation: Drives With 4KB Sectors On The WayFeb 25, 2010 - in Reviews
In the future, an increasing number of hard drives will be writing data in 4KB chunks (rather than 512 bytes) to increase storage capacities. Performance isn’t impacted, as long as you follow some rules. We put WD’s new EARS series on the test bench.
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Inside Western Digital: How Tomorrow's Storage Gets MadeFeb 14, 2010 - in Picture Story
Rarely, if ever, are press outlets allowed unrestricted access to R&D facilities. We jumped at the chance to visit Western Digital and tour the company's campus with virtually free reign. Get ready to see hard drives as you've never seen them before.
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Can Bargain SSDs Give Windows A Quantum Performance Leap?Dec 30, 2009 - in Reviews
Do you have a case of the boot-up blues? Are app load times sucking your will to live? Everybody knows that SSDs can accelerate certain system tasks, but can an affordable SSD deliver a quantum leap in everyday Windows tasks? We did the tests
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Laptop Storage: 640GB And 500GB Drives From WD And FujitsuNov 2, 2009 - in Reviews
We're looking at two new notebook hard drives today: Fujitsu’s 500GB 2.5" disk and WD’s brand new 640GB 2.5" model (the largest notebook drive you can buy). The capacities on both products are outstanding, but neither drive is completely perfect.
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500GB Per Platter: Three Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Hard DrivesOct 29, 2009 - in Reviews
Fast, 3.5” hard drives have now reached the 2TB mark, combining capacity and performance. The new storage density provides benefits for budget buyers, as well as the mainstream, including less heat, less noise, more capacity, and of course, more speed.
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NAS Attack: Network Storage From Thecus And Western DigitalOct 9, 2009 - in Reviews
Thecus is first company to offer an attractive little 2.5” NAS solution that works well in your living room, while Western Digital’s dual-drive NAS delivers up to 4TB of capacity with RAID 0 and 1. Today's we're testing the two very-different devices.
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High-Capacity Business Hard Drives: Biggest Of The BunchAug 14, 2009 - in Reviews
The Seagate Barracuda LP, WD Caviar RAID Edition 4, Hitachi Deskstar E series, and Samsung Spinpoint F2 EcoGreen battle for the attention of business users. Who offers best performance and efficiency? We test the latest drives with up to 2 TB to find out.
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1.5 TB Low-Power HDDs: Green Gets BigJun 24, 2009 - in Reviews
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships.
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Perfect Notebook Storage: Seven 2.5” 500 GB DrivesJun 18, 2009 - in Reviews
We compare the latest 500 GB notebook drives from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and WD. Seagate is first manufacturer to reach 500 GB at 7,200 RPM, but which is really the best drive? We loaded up our updated test system to find out.
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Roundup: Hand-Held Hard Drives With Up To 500 GBMay 15, 2009 - in Reviews
Big hard drive capacities aren't just for immobile desktops any more. We round up the latest portable disks from Fujitsu, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital in order to gauge the performance you can expect from hand-held drives with up to 500 GB.
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New Desktop Hard Drives: Speed Or Capacity?Apr 21, 2009 - in Reviews
Today we're testing and dissecting Samsung’s Spinpoint F2, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.12, and WD’s 2 TB Caviar Green. They all hold 500 GB of data per platter, but the similarities stop there. Which one works best for you?
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A Quartet Of 500 GB HDDs Under $60Feb 23, 2009 - in Reviews
Which is the best mainstream hard drive? Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital sent us their latest 500 GB SATA drives for this shootout and we measure their performance, temperature, and power requirements.
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Scorpio Blue: Big Notebook HDDs Go MainstreamJan 6, 2009 - in Reviews
While two other 500 GB mobile hard drives have been available for a while, WD is the first to release this capacity in a model using the standard 9.5 mm height with two platters.
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WD's 2nd Gen GP: More Speed, Less PowerDec 3, 2008 - in Reviews
Usually, green hardware means you're giving up performance in order to cut back on power consumption. But Western Digital's second-generation Green Power drive changes all of that.
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Tom’s Winter 2008 Hard Drive GuideNov 24, 2008 - in Reviews
Flash-based drives take the performance segment by storm, but the good old hard drive still provides the best bang for the buck as capacities reach 1.5 terabytes. We scanned all the available offerings and found the best drives for winter 2008.
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External Storage: Terabyte Drives ComparedOct 19, 2008 - in Reviews
These external hard drives are all designed to offer 1 TB of storage, but the bundles, performance, and power consumption reveal significant differentiators. A clear winner emerges.
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Western Digital Caviar Goes Green – Faster, More EfficientOct 2, 2008 - in News
HTPC and Quiet PC users are always fighting the battle towards the Ultimate Quiet and the Lower Power consumption system.
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Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda: Bigger And Better?Oct 2, 2008 - in Reviews
Seagate is the first hard drive vendor to offer a 1.5 TB drive in the 3.5” form factor. Meanwhile, WD sent us its RAID Edition 3 (RE3) drive. We tell you which is the best HDD choice today.
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1TB Evolves: New Drives, More SpeedSep 12, 2008 - in Reviews
Hitachi and Western Digital saw the need to improve their terabyte hard drive offerings. Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000.B and WD’s Caviar Black 1 TB are both faster than their predecessors thanks to some serious optimizations.
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Intel's X25-M Solid State Drive ReviewedSep 8, 2008 - in Reviews
Intel jumps into the flash SSD market with the new mainstream 80 GB X25-M 2.5” flash drive, based on a smart controller. This SSD utilizes 10-channel MLC flash memory and it’s a real performance screamer.
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Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard DrivesAug 28, 2008 - in Reviews
Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital send their latest high-performance notebook drives into battle, fighting for the ultimate balance between performance and efficiency.
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