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Western Digital designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. A hard drive is a device that uses one or more rotating magnetic disks to store...
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Western Digital releases new 10,000 rpm hard disk
Western Digital has released a new 10,000 rpm hard drive called the VelociRaptor, which aced the battery of performance tests that PC World's Test Center threw at it. With a MTBF mean time between failure of 1.2 million hours, this drive is entirely suited for the enterprise, though WD...
Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., VelociRaptor, WD, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-04-22
DRM enforced on storage?
I just read an article tipping off unsuspecting consumers to Western Digital's network storage problems. Western Digital's ‘My Book World Edition' is specifically designed to make peoples life easier. The sales page tells people: "This storage system and all the files on it are always accessible...
Tags: Digital-rights Management, Media, Western Digital Corp., MP3, Storage, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Justin Fielding
Blog posts 2007-12-09
Western Digital's green hard drives
Western Digital announced its Serial ATA SATA drives that consume 40% less power than competing drives. An excerpt from Techworld: Western Digital believes that large datacentres could save up to $100,000 annually if they used 10,000 of these new drives rather than ones from other suppliers....
Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Serial ATA, Roi/Tco, Storage, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-21
Western Digital's green hard drives
... and Less Heat ?Wouldn't the WD green drives produce much less heat due to less power usage? To a "personal" size system, that's more important than saving electrical energy. Less heat = less cooling required = less noise. (Hopefully!)
Tags: escapepod, hard drive, Less Heat, Western Digital Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-11-21
Photos: Dissecting a hard drive
Western Digital invites CNET News.com's Erica Ogg to rip apart its 160GB "Scorpio" hard disk drive. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, hard disk drive, western digital, TechRepublic Inc., Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Photograph, News.com, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2007-11-12
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: Solution, Phone, Unified Communications, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Corp., WD, Telephony, E-mail Servers, VOIP, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications
Case studies 2007-10-01
Western Digital hard disk 120 Gb is not getting recognized when connected
I recently bought a Western Digital 120GB hard drive (the model number is something like WD1200U17-001). This morning I backed up some files as I was going to re-install Windows XP on my laptop. Now, when I plug it in I get a "Safely Remove Hardware" message, but the drive...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, amit.agarwal12@..., Disk1, disk management, Disk Management, computer, Microsoft Windows, hard drive, Western Digital Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-10-25
MioNet (exe)
MioNet is the first and only virtual workplace that makes remote access and file sharing truly seamless, simple, and secure. Anything you want (documents, music, photos, and Webcams) on any of your computers running MioNet regardless of where they are physically located, is at your fingertips. And you can access...
Tags: Remote Desktop, Western Digital Corp., Computer, MioNet, Productivity, Firewalls, Networking
Software downloads 2007-10-02
Can't access info on Western Digital Passport 120gb
Hi, Wondering if someone could help me out pleaaaasseeeewith an issue I had with a Wester Digital Passport 120gb I got to back up my info. I had my Laptop Hard Disk replaced as it was faulty. I connected the Passport and the program ran fine and it actually showed...
Tags: velascoe@..., Western Digital Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-10-15
Western Digital touts cost savings with 'green' hard disks
The hard disk maker, Western Digital, announced plans for its GreenPower hard disk family with lower power consumption. Ranging in capacity from 320 GB to 1 TB, the hard disks lower power consumption could save up to $100,000 in energy costs for a data center with 10,000 such drives. ...
Tags: Hard Drive, Power Consumption, Western Digital Corp., Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-07-24
Download free hard disk imaging utilities for Windows XP
Western DigitalWhat if you have a Western Digital and you want to create an image without spending a fortune on software such as Acronis.Western DigitalMy thoughts exactly...what about Western Digital? Costco sell these, so I'm sure there are many out there who own them...HDCloneGoogle hdclone. It's from Miray. The free...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, imaging, kfrost@..., Microsoft Windows XP, hard drive, Western Digital Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-09-05
XP does not recognize my Western Digital 500 G, model #WDG1U5000N.
I just purchased the WD Model number WDG1U5000N. I connected it to my Toshiba laptop to test it, and try backing up my information, then, I will back up the information on my VPR Matrix DT. I went to Device Manager, and the external HD icon can be...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, conan1951@..., Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
Discussion threads 2007-09-03
Western Digital external HDD not showing up in My Computer - any help?
I recently bought a Western Digital 160GB hard drive (the model number is something like WD1600JB). This morning I backed up some files as I was going to re-install Windows XP on my laptop. Now, when I plug it in I get a "Safely Remove Hardware" message, but...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ObiWayneKenobi, computer, hard drive, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Windows
Discussion threads 2007-07-12
Western Digital External HDD Problem
Hi, I have a WD external 2.5" HDD FAT32 (160GB), and I've been experiencing the following problems.First of all, I've been connecting this to both a MacBook (MacOSX 10.4) and a PC Windows XP Prof. Sometimes when moving data to the disk from the PC, I was getting the following...
Tags: Desktops, effiem@..., Western Digital Corp., PC, disk, hard drive
Discussion threads 2007-05-31
Western Digital (WD2500JB) Caviar SE Hard Drive
Can Someone help me please. I recently purchased a Western digital 250GB Hard Drive which I installed in my Desktop PC. The BIOS detects it as 250 GB but when I try to install Windows XP it only comes up as 139.9 GB, I Fdisk the drive and selected large...
Tags: FDISK, stonelovn@..., Boot & Nuke, windows, software, hardware, programming, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Windows
Discussion threads 2007-02-10
TechRepublic Pro FastGlance: Western Digital Lighted Combo Hard Drive
If you need to quickly add storage to your workstation and want to jazz it up at the same time, then the Western Digital Lighted Combo Hard Drive might be for you. This FastGlance looks at the product and tells you what to expect when you take it out...
Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp.
Download resources 2005-12-21
TechRepublic Pro FastGlance: Western Digital NetCenter Network Drive
When you want to quickly add storage to your network, you don't need to invest lots of money in a new server. You can simply attach a networked hard drive to your network and be done with it. This FastGlance shows how to quickly add network storage using Western Digital's...
Tags: Network, Storage, Western Digital Corp., Networking
Download resources 2005-12-15
TechRepublic Pro FastGlance: Western Digital WD Passport
Often, you need a way to be able to quickly move large amounts of data between two PCs but have no network connection to do so. Or you may need a way to quickly increase storage on a machine. That's where a portable hard drive comes in handy. This FastGlance...
Tags: Western Digital Corp.
Download resources 2005-12-08
Two part WIN98SE question: 1) If I have
1G of ram but the bios at start - up only 'sees' 512, what do need to do to be able to see and use the 1G?2) Is there a work-around for the 120GB limit of large disk support so that I can use all 200GB with 98SE?Does this question...
Tags: BIOS, (No clever nick), windows, Microsoft Windows XP, RAM
Q&A 2006-03-31
College instructor needs info on hard drives
Some months back, many of you professional IT people waded in on the long term reliability of various hard drives for desk tops and servers. IBM seemed to be a noted recipient of criticism. I would appreciate if you folks would reiterate your experience, good and bad, of the respective...
Tags: hard drive, hard drive reliability, Maxtor Corp., Western Digital Corp., brand, jacksdaddy1@..., hardware
Discussion threads 2006-06-20


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