Western Digital has announced their new 4TB portable SSD portfolio today, with a focus on performance as well as capacity. And just what might a fast portable SSD with 4TB capacity cost?…
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Western Digital's WD Blue SSDs are mainstream drives in the middle of the company's consumer product stack, offered at lower price points than the company's high-performance WD_BLACK products, and positioned above the…
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In January Jim took a quick look at the third generation of WD's Black NVMe drive, as well as the SSD Dashboard software for Windows included with the drive. Today...
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Western Digital today is launching the latest version of its Black-series NVMe SSDs. Like its predecessor, the WD Black SN750 is targeted at gamers, introducing a new…
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Following up on the prior release of a 14TB SMR (shingled magnetic recording) HDD, WD has launched a PMR (parallel magnetic recording)version of the same - the Ultrastar DC HC530: While...
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Introduction: While Western Digital has a huge history with spinning disks, their experience with SSDs has been touch and go. They expanded further into the HDD arena with their...
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Western Digital launched a few new NVMe SSDs at Mobile World Congress today: To the left we have the WD PC SN720, a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD boasting speeds...
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Today Western Digital made a rather significant announcement in the field of HDD technology. We’ve previously talked about upcoming ways to increase the density of HDD storage, with the seeming vaporware
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PC Perspective Podcast #468 - 09/21/17 Join us for discussion on AMD Raven Ridge rumors, Intel and Global Foundries new fabrication technology! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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A month ago, WD and Toshiba each put out releases related to their BiCS 3D Flash memory. WD announced 96 layers (BiCS4) as their next capacity node, while Toshiba announced them reliably storing…
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A couple of announcements out of Toshiba and Western Digital today. First up is Toshiba announcing QLC (4 bit per cell) flash on their existing BiCS 3 (64-layer) technology. QLC...
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PC Perspective Podcast #452 - 01/01/17 Join us for talk about Computex 2017 and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through the RSS...
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Western Digital bought SanDisk nearly two years ago, but we had not really seen any products jointly launched under both brand labels. Until today: The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD...
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Western Digital increased the capacity of their Red and Red Pro NAS hard disk lines to 10TB. Acquiring the Helioseal technology via their HGST acquisition, which enables Helium filled...
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Western Digital has just announced the My Passport SSD line of portable solid state hard drives. As you might expect, the major advantage of SSD-based portable storage is speed. This...
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Following up on their Blue and Green SSDs launched back in October, Western Digital has now launched a Black series SSD: Unlike the Green and Blue which are SATA products available...
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Since their acquisition of SanDisk and recent wrapping up of a long-time integration with HGST's Helium tech, Western Digital took the lid off of a round of product...
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Al is hard at work benchmarking the new Western Digital SSDs and you should expect to see his full in depth review in the near future but for those who...
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