Western Digital is planning to launch a range of helium-filled hard drives. Not to make them lighter or higher-pitched, though: with a density one-seventh that of air, the gas reduces internal drag, in turn boosting performance. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"I was joking, I love hydrogen, brilliant stuff and you can make it with a solar panel and water! What more could you ask for." More »
The cloud's great, but sometimes you still need fast, humongous local storage. How fast and humongous? How about, say, 2TB at 10,000RPM with TWO Thunderbolt ports. Read More >>
Western Digital's inevitable Thunderbolt offering is missing solid state guts—and that hurts it a lot. But what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in capacity. It is an enormous vault, with more space than most humans will ever need. Read More >>
Featured comment by ispy:
"I've been looking at a Synology DS212J (BYOHDs), take a look. If anyone on here has any comments on it, or anything similar NAS wise, that'd be great..." More »
What if a router could make sure streaming movies and online games always get the bulk of your bandwidth, even if everyone else in your house is downloading a zillion porn movies? That's exactly what hard drive kingpin Western Digital claims to have done with its first router, the My Net N900 HD. Read More >>
Remember when we all used to sit around the TV together as a family and there was only three channels, and they broadcasted the programmes so quietly that we all had to take turns holding the ear trumpet? Read More >>
Featured comment by gjgbarclay:
"That's a nice price. Never having actually used this model (or the 1TB built in version it's based on) I can't comment on it's functionality, but if N..." More »
Good news for anyone looking to buying a hard drive or computer in the next year or so -- Western Digital has partially restored production at one of its manufacturing plants in Thailand, and expects to have all the water pumped out of a second within 10 days. Read More >>
Cloud storage is all the rage these days, but do any of us know what we’re actually doing when we blindly send our data up into the cloudosphere, or whatever the hell they call it? Read More >>
One of the world's largest hard drive makers has emerged as another victim of the floods that've hit Thailand, with WD reporting that one of its Thai plants has been "inundated" by water and some equipment is currently underwater. Read More >>
Doesn't matter if you're looking at a slideshow of vacation photos, streaming a Netflix movie or watching that copy of Hurt Locker you totally didn't torrent, they all look better bigger. So why squeeze your media onto a little monitor when you can stream it to your big-screen with Western Digital's newest media players? Read More >>
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