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Western Digital Launches New Line of AV Hard Drives

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Today Western Digital (WD) announced a new line of Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for the audio and video markets. AV use is one of the fastest growing sectors of hard drive use. This makes sense if you consider how many people are currently using DVR and Tivo devices that rely on HDD internally to store video.

The new WD line was built around durability more than size increases or even new speeds. In addition to being built for optimal durability the new drives are also made to be quiet and cool as well. Anyone who has used a DVR inside a closed entertainment center can tell you how much heat they put out. One of my biggest issues with my SuddenLink DVR is the noise the HDD makes as it seeks and writes data. It is quite bothersome during quiet movie moments or when you are trying to sleep or read and the DVR is recording. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

New Western Digital My Book Pro II 1TB External HDD

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Western Digital is introducing their new 1TB My Book Pro II external hard drive. The new drive is shipping configured for RAID 0, which spans data across both of the 500GB internal drives for 1TB of total storage space.

However, the new My Book can be configured to use RAID 1 where the data is mirrored between the two drives for security and redundancy should one of the drives fail. Connectivity for the new 1TB drive is via USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and FireWire 800. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

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