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Western Digital Passport 320GB – largest external 2.5-inch drive

, Dec 3rd 2007 Discuss [0]

Western Digital recently announces its latest and largest internal laptop hard drive sporting 320GB of storage. Now, WD is making its largest mobile drive available as a portable external hard drive. The 320GB Western Digital Passport is available in five colors and feature data encryption with its WD Sync software (windows only). The 320 WD Passport will cost you $230. [Western Digital]

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB HDD

, Nov 21st 2007 Discuss [0]

So, Samsung has this series of hardrives called the Spinpoint F1 series, with the HD103UJ topping it at 1TB. All three drives in the series have a data density of 350GB, operate at 7200RPMs, and utilize the SATA/300 interface. its the one on the left. Only the 750GB and 1TB drives have the full 32MB cache though. All of that calculates to make the 1TB drive have a total average access time of 14.2 milliseconds, which, in the terabyte hard drive market (there aren’t many) is slow, in fact, Seagate and Hitachi have models that perform at 12.7ms and 13.8ms respectively, so the only company the Samsung beats out is the WD Caviar GP with its 15/15.1ms access time. Read The Full Story

Western Digital ships 320GB notebook hard drives

, Oct 31st 2007 Discuss [0]

Western Digital starting to ship its new Scorpio 320GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard drive (WD3200BEVT). I use the 250GB version on my own laptop and have been quite happy with its performance despite the 5400RPM rotation speed. Read The Full Story

Amazing storage density achieved by Western Digital

, Oct 18th 2007 Discuss [0]

They were able to hit 520GB per square inch, which means I now want a freaking hard drive that holds that much data that’s not much bigger than a square inch. Yeah sure, they’ll probably use the technology to crank out hard drives somewhere in the multi-terabyte range, but I think it would be awesome to have a thumb drive that could hold 520GB. I guess this is just proof that telling someone they can’t do something is just more motivation to do just that, since Hitachi just said earlier this week that the Tunneling Magneto-Resistive head used wouldn’t be able to do just what WD has accomplished. Of course Hitachi was saying that as they announced their new CPP-GMR read/write head tech. Read The Full Story

Western Digital My Books upgraded to 2TB

, Jul 25th 2007 Discuss [0]

I require a lot of storage space for my music and video files, however, never have I thought to myself that I need 2TB of external storage space. However, for those of you that need every last MB of space will be happy to hear about the latest My Book hard drives from Western Digital. Read The Full Story

Western Digital’s new AV drives are in it for the long haul

, Apr 9th 2007 Discuss [0]

Western Digital has been in the hard drive business for quite some time now. Their latest drives are built on the idea that some devices are accessing and writing to the hard drive around the clock. DVR's are probably the best example of those devices. I know that mine is recording shows all throughout the day, not to mention every time you hit that beloved pause button, your drive is writing more data. The AV drives from Western Digital are using new technology to stretch out their lives, and make them quieter. Read The Full Story
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