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Western Digital Announces Fiscal 2008 Q4 Revenue
It has been a big week for Western Digital. WD announced a 2.5-inch version of its VelociRaptor hard drive this week and now it is announcing its earnings for Q4 of its fiscal 2008 year. WD posted revenue of $8.1 billon and an operating income of $1 billion.
WD says net income was $867 million, or $3.84 per share. The prior year net income was $564 million or $2.50 per share. WD says that the fiscal year showed an increase in revenue of 48% compared to fiscal 2007’s $5.5 billion. Revenue in Q4 totaled $2 billion and WD shipped 35.2 million units in the quarter with an operating income of $241 million. Read more
Posted on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:43:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Drive Review
Futurelooks published a Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Drive review.
Quote from the review: "Hard drives remain the last great bottleneck in performance computing.
Processors and RAM constantly get faster and more complex, due to being solid state electronics. Since hard drives consist of moving parts, they have been left behind in this race.
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Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB Review
The Digital Trends test lab published a review of the Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB external HDD. The new WD My Book scored an Editor's Choice Award.
Quote from the review: "What’s better than a My Book with a single drive inside of it? A My Book with two drives in a mirrored array so the same data is on both drives. Even better, if one drive fails you can easily pop the lid on the drive and remove it!
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Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:34:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Launches Caviar Black
WDtoday launched its new line of WD Caviar Black 7200 RPM 3.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for high-performance desktop, workstation and multi-drive systems.
The Caviar Black will be available in capacities of 750 GB and 1 TB.
WD's new 'blue, green, black' product system enables customers to choose the right drive for them. WD Caviar Blue represents the performance and reliability that WD has been building for over 20 years, the WD Caviar Green employs WD's GreenPower technology for cool, quiet and eco-friendly operation, while the WD Caviar Black family of hard drives delivers maximum performance for today's discriminating technology enthusiasts.
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Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:50:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Scorpio Black 7200rpm Notebook HDD
Western Digital announced today that it was now shipping its line of Scorpio Black notebook HDDs. The drives are all 7200RPM and use the SATA 3 Gb/s interface and have 16Mb caches. Storage capacities for the line start at 80 GB and go up to 320GB.
Common features for the line include IntelliSeek for optimum seek time with low power consumption, SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disc surface, ShockGuard protects the drive from shocks, Free-fall sensor parks the heads off the disc in less than 200ms when a drop is sensed and WhisperDrive makes the line some of the quietest drives on the market. Pricing for the line is up to $250. Read more
Posted on Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:04:05 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10K SATA HDD Review
Quote from the review: "Today Artiom looks at the famed Western Digital 150GB 10,000RPM SATA hard drive.
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Posted on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital VR150 300GB Velociraptor Review
Motherboards published a review of the new Western Digital VR150 300GB Velociraptor HDD.
Quote from the review: "It seems as if the folks at Western Digital have been working late night in their R&D department as the new Velociraptor takes the Raptor series to the next level. The Raptor series of drives were already a hall of fame winning product and with new drives with basically twice as fast overall performance levels these new Velociraptors will take their rightful place alongside their predecessors.
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Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital VelociRaptor VR150 HDD Review
The TechReport got their hands on the new Western Digital VelociRaptor hard-drive that tries to ride on the success of the Raptor hard-drive series.
Quote from the review: "If PC enthusiasts had a hall of fame for hardware, Western Digital's Raptor hard drive would be a shoo-in. Storage-related products are usually a little short on sex appeal, but the Raptor has become an icon—a testament to what it means to be an enthusiast.
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Posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:22:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Caviar RE2 750GB Review
Hothardware published a review of the Western Digital Caviar RE2 750GB hard-drive.
Quote from the review: "Western Digital’s latest RE2 disk currently tops out at a peak capacity of 750GB, which is a full quarter less than Seagate’s competing ES2 lineup that is available at 1TB.
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Posted on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Scorpio 2.5'' 320GB HDD Review
Tweaktown published a review of the Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 320GB HDD.
Quote from the review: "While SSD or Solid State Disks are making their way in, we are still working with the current generation of storage and Western Digital has managed to do very well at increasing sizes and speeds.
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Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Announces 320GB Passport Essential
Western Digital announced My Passport Essential today, the latest addition to its line of My Passport drives. This drive is USB powered and has 320GB of storage space and weighs less than five ounces.
The drive is completely USB bus powered so no AC adapter is needed. WD Sync software allows users to sync files from their computer to the external drive and the software can sync Outlook messages and contacts as well. Read more
Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:21:34 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Hot Deal on White Western Digital 250GB Passport
The deal of the day in the I4U Shop is the Western Digital 250GB Passport Portable Hard Drive in White for $121.98.
The 250GB Passport drive from WD is a stylish portable HDD. In white it matches your Apple MacBook perfectly.
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Posted on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:50:40 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Announces 320GB PASSPORT USB Drive
Western Digital announced its latest PASSPORT portable USB drive today with 320GB of storage capacity. The drive is available this week online at WD’s store and via some retailers.
The 320GB PASSPORT includes software to allow the backup of data from a computer like Outlook data. Data on the drive is also protected with 128-bit encryption. Preinstalled Google software makes searching files on the 320GB drive easy to do. Read more
Posted on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:45:24 CST | by Shane McGlaun
1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition Review
Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the high capacity 1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition storage solution. The WD backup system scored an Editor's Choice Award.
Quote from the review: "Western Digital (WD) has revamped its popular My Book line of external backup drives with a new look and new software, and new interface options.
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Posted on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital's Green Hard Drive
Western Digital announced its latest enterprise hard drive today which reduces energy usage and lowers costs for data centers. The new GreenPower family of HDDs range from 500GB to 1TB storage capacity.
The drives are reliability rated at 1.2 million hours mean time between failure in high duty cycle environments. WD says these drives can reduce power usage by 40%. "Delivering up to 40 percent savings in hard drive power consumption, Western Digital's new RE2-GP hard drives are an excellent choice for customers deploying Rackable Systems' newest generation of Eco-Logical storage systems -- enabling even greater efficiency and performance," said Tony Gaughan, chief products officer of Rackable Systems. Read more
Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:09:15 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital Introduces 320GB Scorpio Notebook HDD
Western Digital announced its latest notebook hard drive today called the Scorpio 320GB SATA hard drive. This drive uses the 2.5-inch form factor for use in notebook computers and small external hard drive enclosures.
The drive is also very slim with a 9.5mm thickness and uses proprietary technology to keep the drive quiet. The transfer rate for the drive is 3 GB/s and it has a rotational speed of 5400rpm. Read more
Posted on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:39:36 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital Passport with 250GB Review
WD introduced the shiny black Western Digital Passport with 250GB portable HDD in July. Our partner Digital Trends just published a review of the Western Digital Passport drive.
Quote from the review: "Notebook users would be wise to keep a portable backup of their drive’s contents, as they are prone to dying at a young age from being moved around so much.
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Posted on Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Adds My Book Studio Edition
Western Digital added three other new My book external hard drives to its lineup last week. Today they have added a fourth new My Book Edition called the My Book Studio Edition. The drive is formatted for Mac users and is equipped with quadruple interfaces.
Interface options include USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800, and eSATA. Capacities available range from 320GB to 1TB and Mac software for automatic, continual backups is included. The software will also encrypt backups as well. Read more
Posted on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:00:29 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital Adds New Drives to My Book Family of Externals
Western Digital’s family of My Book external storage devices has a few new members. Today a My Book Home Edition, My book Office Edition and a MY Book Essential Edition were added to the lineup.
Capacities ranging from 320 GB to 1TB are being offered and each version offers features tailored to the environment of the user. The home version automatically and continuously backs up a user’s computer. The office edition adds the ability to remotely access and manage data and the essential edition is for users looking for simple storage solutions. Read more
Posted on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:49:36 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS Review
3dGameMan reviews the Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS. The WD 750GB HDD starts at $190 on these stores.
Quote from the review: "The Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB Hard Drive (WD7500AAKS) is one of the largest hard drives currently on the market. Why does anyone need a hard drive this large? Well, if you are asking this question, you probably don't.
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Posted on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive Review
3DGameman reviews the Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive.
Quote from the HDD review:
"The Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive performs very well in a single drive configuration, but even better in a RAID0 configuration. This is really no surprise to me because I've own all the Western Digital Raptor series drives and they were stable, reliable and fast. None of these drives have ever failed.
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Posted on Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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