Western Digital adds digital labels to My Book external drives

Western Digital has just started what I believe will be the next trend in USB drives: a small piece of “e-paper” that can be used to label the drive. The main advantage of using the “e-label”, as they call it, is that it’s based on the electronic ink technology developed for e-readers. This means the [...]

Western Digital announces new My Book and My Passport external drives

WD has revealed updates for their My Book and My Passport drives. Both products are external USB drives, with added software (WD SmartWare) that allow users to easily make backups of their important data. The updates include new casings and higher capacities.

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Western Digital also shipping 7200rpm, 2TB drive?

Just days after Hitachi announced their 2 TB, 7200 rpm drive started shipping The Register reports hearing rumors about a similar drive from Western Digital. WD has been shipping a 2 TB drive for several months, but this is a 5400 rpm “green” version; the new model is running at a more performance-oriented 7200 rpm: [...]

First 2.5 inch terabyte-sized drive shipping

Western Digital announced today that they are the world’s first manufacturer to ship 2.5 inch SATA disks with a 1 TB capacity. Their Scorpio Blue line of mobile harddisks now has two models that are unmatched in size by any of their competitors; a 1 TB and a 750 GB model. The closest any of [...]