When you start out with a fresh new hard drive, it may seem like it has virtually unlimited capacity. The reality, though, is that it won’t take nearly as long to max out that drive as you might think, and you will need to find some way to expand your storage. You can simply upgrade and replace the drive with a larger one, or you can tack on some external storage, but disk drives—both internal and external—are yesterday’s technology. Another solution is to embrace the cloud and store your data online where the only limitation to your storage capacity is  [ Read More ]

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Recent reports from Western Digital and other companies indicate that hard drive production is beginning to pick back up, following the flooding in Thailand, which impaired a lot of the world’s hard drive production. Even though operations are starting back up, it will be months before production is where it was before the flood, and could be another year before inventories are back at normal levels. Western Digital CEO John Coyne said last night that this week the company completed its first batch of “post-flood” sliders (the part of the drive that contains the read-write head) at its facility in  [ Read More ]

In a bizarre twist, police in Victoria have recovered some of the computer devices stolen from the University of Victoria earlier this month, along with a repentant note from the thieves. A postal worker found the hard drives and other computer devices in a green garbage bag stuffed in a mailbox in the nearby suburb of Langford on Tuesday. Also in the bag was a note, apparently from the thieves, that said the information in these bags was not copied, distributed or exploited. “We want no part of everyday people living in fear that their personal information is being used  [ Read More ]

This week we may well be paying more attention to hard drives more than any other sort of Apple-related product announced during MacWorld, and Western Digital is never one to disappoint. The WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo is first up, it working with the Thunderbolt port on your newest MacBook devices. This external harddrive utilizes your 10 Gbps Thunderbolt to access two 3.5-inch hard drives in a RAID O striped array – and wouldn’t you know it, it’s fast! This external hard drive will deliver your data to and from it as fast as 2 Gbps (250 MBps), this not  [ Read More ]