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WD's new 1TB portable hard drive: $249, 256-bit hardware encryption

Western Digital's new line of portable and desktop hard drives have higher capacities, smaller sizes, tougher hardware security and support for incremental backups. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Hard Drive, Hardware, Encryption, WD, Security, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...

Tags: Card, Bandwidth, Disk, Apricorn, Video, PCI Express, Video Capture Card, MB/sec, PeDA, WD, Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Video Capture Card, RAID, Corporate Communications, Storage, PCI, Hardware, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-in. HDD, $249

Western Digital on Monday announced two new high-capacity portable hard drives, a 750GB model and a 1TB model that's "the industry's highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available." How 1TB, you ask? WD manages 333 GB per platter in its WD Scorpio...

Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., WD, WD Scorpio Blue SATA, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Western Digital begins shipping in-house SiliconDrive III SSDs

Western Digital today announced that it has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive III solid-state drive product family based on technology from its March 2009 acquisition of SiliconSystems and featuring feature faster read/write speeds, increased capacities and mechanical scalability, the company says. SiliconDrive III...

Tags: Hard Drive, Storage Array, Western Digital Corp., Register, WD, Serial ATA, Ip storage, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Western Digital enters SSD market with SiliconSystems acquisition

Storage vendor Western Digital announced today that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. SiliconSystems' portfolio includes SSDs with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces in...

Tags: Acquisition, Western Digital Corp., SiliconSystems Inc., WD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Supply Chain, Corporate Law, Storage, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-30

2 platter, 500GB, 2.5" drive

Western Digital is announcing - and commencing volume shipments of - their first 2.5" 500 GB drive. Hey, didn't Hitachi and Samsung get there first? Not really. The 12.5mm Hitachi drive was too big to fit in most notebooks. Samsung's 9.5mm drive fits -...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Head, WD, MSRP, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List for Aug/Sep 08

OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...

Tags: Hardware, List, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, cpu, gpu, nvidia, ati, intel, amd, wd, velociraptor

Image galleries 2008-07-25

WD Improves Productivity and Cuts Phone Costs With VoIP Communication

Western Digital WD, a leading hard drive manufacturer, employs more than 45,000 people in 38 offices around the world. Frequent travel and geographic distance make it challenging for employees to communicate - and the sheer size of manufacturing facilities often make it difficult to locate people. To overcome these obstacles,...

Tags: VoIP, Phone, Unified Communications, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Corp., WD, Telephony, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-10-01

791bs.rar 2001-03-26 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../DOS-W31/Readme.txt .../ANI/Readme.txt .../W95drv/Readme.txt .../W98drv/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Needs Reboot Crystal PnP Audio System Joystick Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Compatible Disabled...

Tags: S3 Inc., Stealth, Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., Diamond Stealth, Tseng, WD, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-03-26

tx98b.rar 1998-07-15 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../DOS-W31/Readme.txt .../ANI/Readme.txt .../W95drv/Readme.txt .../W98drv/Readme.txt .../IDE/Readme.txt .../DOS/Readme.txt .../NETWARE/Readme.txt .../NT/Readme.txt .../OS2/Readme.txt .../WIN95/Readme.txt .../WINDOWS/Readme.txt .../VGA/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Needs Reboot Crystal PnP Audio System Joystick Crystal PnP Audio System Control...

Tags: S3 Inc., Stealth, Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., Diamond Stealth, Tseng, WD, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1998-07-15

dx5_2.zip 1998-01-23 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Needs Reboot Crystal PnP Audio System Joystick Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Compatible Disabled Device Crystal PnP IDE Controller Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC/Joystick ATI VGA Wonder ATI...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., Diamond Stealth, Tseng, WD, AWE32, SB16-kompatibel, SB16, Trident, PC-9801-118, ñPnP, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1998-01-23

dx5eng.exe 1997-07-15 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Needs Reboot Crystal PnP Audio System Joystick Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Compatible Disabled Device Crystal PnP IDE Controller Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC/Joystick ATI VGA Wonder ATI...

Tags: S3 Inc., Stealth, Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., Jaton, Diamond Stealth, Tseng, WD, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1997-07-15

EDGE3D2K3K.exe 1996-04-11 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../extract/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Video Logic 928Movie (S3) Paradise Accelerator Ports O'Call WD Paradise Accelerator VL Plus WD Paradise Bahamas (S3) Paradise Barbados 64 (S3) Paradise Super VGA WD Orchid ProDesigner II Tseng Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., WD, Tseng, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1996-04-11

GS3410d2.exe 1996-01-09 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Video Logic 928Movie (S3) Paradise Accelerator Ports O'Call WD Paradise Accelerator VL Plus WD Paradise Bahamas (S3) Paradise Barbados 64 (S3) Paradise Super VGA WD Orchid ProDesigner II Tseng Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus (S3) Orchid Fahrenheit Pro 64 (S3) Orchid Fahrenheit VA (S3) Orchid...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., PURE Digital, WD, Tseng, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1996-01-09

gs5s12d2.zip 1996-01-09 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 Intel Native Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or AWE-32 Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play Creative Advanced Wave Effects Synthesis for AWE...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., PURE Digital, WD, Tseng, PCI, Corporate Communications, Storage, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 1996-01-09

GS3410d3.exe 1995-12-31 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Video Logic 928Movie (S3) Paradise Accelerator Ports O'Call WD Paradise Accelerator VL Plus WD Paradise Bahamas (S3) Paradise Barbados 64 (S3) Paradise Super VGA WD Orchid ProDesigner II Tseng Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus (S3) Orchid Fahrenheit Pro 64 (S3) Orchid Fahrenheit VA (S3) Orchid...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Cirrus Logic Inc., PURE Digital, WD, Tseng, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1995-12-31

Additional Resources

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Synology Disk Station DS409slim - NAS server

Synology Disk Station DS409slim is a true miniature powerhouse in the network-attached storage device market. It's the first 2.5-inch hard drive-based NAS server we've reviewed that offers hot-swappable capability. However, that is its least impressive feature. The server did well in our performance tests and, like other Synology products we've...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, disk, DS409Slim, NAS, NAS server, hard drive, server, RAID

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Alienware M15x (Intel Core i7 720QM, 250GB HDD, 3GB)

Keeping the same revised look and feel as the recent 17-inch M17x version, the Alienware M15x is an imposing black slab of computing power that's thicker and heavier than most 17-inch laptops. We love having high-end options such as Intel's uberpowerful Core i7-920XM CPU, and it's a plus that...

Tags: Alienware, Alienware M15x

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Gateway NV7802u

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Gateway continues to offer some of the best bang-for-your-buck retail laptops. The NV7802u is a fine example: It's a 17-inch wide-screen model with a...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Intel Core 2 Duo, Gateway Inc., Intel Corp., laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-13