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WD Red 10TB 3.5-Inch SOHO NAS Hard Disk Review
WD RED 10TB 3.5-Inch NAS Hard Disk I have performed extensive tests with WD‘s Red series of drives and today it is time to take a look at the newest drive in the series, the 10TB model (WD100EFAX). This large-capacity NAS hard disk doesn’t just bring increased capacity, it also…
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Win 1 of 3 WD Red WD60EFRX 6TB Hard Drives
WD Red Are you tired of running out of storage space on your system? Are you eager to give your NAS the boost it needs? Then we’ve got great news for you! We’ve teamed up with the awesome people at WD to give away three of their lovely 6TB WD…
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Western Digital Promises 40TB HDDs Thanks to Microwaves
Storage drives have come a long way in the past 10 years, but that’s nothing in comparison with what Western Digital has planned. The recent improvements to the possible capacity have been impressive, but they still rely on the same basic technology. That’s about to change as Western Digital introduced the…
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Western Digital Launches 14TB HGST Ultrastar Hs14
Western Digital announced that it is releasing the world’s largest hard drive disk. Indeed, the monstrous HGST Ultrastar Hs14 – designed for industrial applications – boasts a whopping 14TB capacity. In fact, the Helium-filled drive offers 40% more capacity and twice the sequential write speed than its SMR predecessor. In addition,…
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Western Digital Releases 3D QLC NAND
Western Digital is a traditional hard disk drive manufacturer. That changed with the SanDisk purchase last year. Along with the sizable flash memory business, WD also picked up a partnership with Toshiba. Earlier, Toshiba announced their new 3bit 3D Quad Level Cell NAND. Following along, Western Digital is also announcing their…
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Western Digital Announces BICS4 3D NAND with 96 Layers
Western Digital announced that it has successfully developed its next-generation 3D NAND technology, BiCS4. The new BICS4 technology features 96 layers of vertical storage capability. To put that in perspective, it is an increase of 30% percent over the current BICS3 which features 64 layers. The new technology is a…
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Western Digital Launches My Passport Ultra Drives
Western Digital started a design change for their external drives last year and now it’s time for the WD My Passport to change its look. The new My Passport Ultra has been redesigned to match and comes in two metallic colours. Whether you got a black PC or a white…
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Western Digital Introduces WD RED and RED PRO 10TB Drives
Western Digital just announced a new addition to their popular RED series of NAS drives which now also are available as 10TB versions. The new capacity increase is for both the consumer version, RED, as well as for the SMB version, the RED PRO series. WD uses the same HelioSeal…
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Western Digital Announces HGST Ultrastar SS300 12Gbps SAS SSD
Western Digital announces their latest addition to the line-up with the new HGST Ultrastar 12Gbps SAS SSD. The new drive is the company’s highest-performing SAS SSD to date. It was developed in partnership with Intel and the new Ultrastar SS300 delivers best-in-class random performance: Up to 400,000 IOPS random read…
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HGST Now Shipping Ultrastar He12 12TB Hard Drive
It has been about 5 months since Western Digital introduced the HGST He12 12TB hard drive and now the company announced that it’s shipping these new impressive drives. The impressive capacity is achieved through an eight-disk design, increasing the capacity of the previous models by as much as 20%. The…
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Drobo 5N2 5-Bay Self-Managing NAS Review
Introduction Drobo only just released their newest NAS device and I already have the pleasure to have one of them in the office for a review and some benchmarking. The new Drobo 5N2 brings double the network connectivity and an improved processor when compared to the predecessor, the Drobo 5N.…
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G-Technology Launches 10TB G-DRIVE USB-C External HDD
G-Technology is a company known for their drives, created for the creative professionals. They already have a great line-up of drives and now there’s one more in the family called the G-DRIVE USB-C. The new drive comes in capacities up to 10TB and is ready for Mac OS systems and Time Machine…
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Western Digital Announces WD My Passport SSD
Western Digital is well known for their mechanical hard disk drives, both internal and external. But since they acquired SanDisk, they’ve also entered the SSD market. Now the company has released their fastest portable and first WD My Passport SSD drive. “The WD brand is focused on delivering fresh, new personal…
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Western Digital Announces 10 TB WD Purple HDDs
Western Digital announced that they are upping the capacity of their surveillance drives with 25% and releasing the new 10TB version in their Purple series. The WD Purple HDDs are designed for NVR and DVR systems which increase in resolutions just as any other camera system. Beside the 25-percent capacity…
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WD Reponds To Recent My Cloud Vulnerability Disclosure
WD made big headlines with the recent disclosure or no less than 85 exploits in their My Cloud series of NAS devices. The site that found the bugs also disclosed them to the public in order to get WD into gear and fix them and they did so because of…
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