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  • New WD hard drive

    Western Digital is shipping its fastest-ever VelociRaptor hard-disk drive, which uses a 6Gbit/s serial ATA interface and comes in 45GB and 600GB versions.

  • WD releases consumer SSD

    Western Digital earlier this month began shipping its first solid state drive (SSD) aimed at consumers. The move is a significant development in the SSD industry, which has so far aimed its wares at the enterprise market. The new Western Digital 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue SSD comes in capacities of up to 256GB and features a native serial ATA 3.0 gigabits per second interface with read speeds up to 250MB/s and write transfer rates up to 170 MB/s. The new SSD also contains and error correction control, as well as TRIM and Native Command Queuing command support to increase performance.

  • Western Digital enters enterprise space

    Consumer hard-drive maker Western Digital has announced it is entering the market for enterprise-class datacentre drives with its first serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk product.

  • WD releases SSDs

    Western Digital has announced new SiliconDrive III Solid State Disk (SSD) drives. The release is based on technology from Silicion Systems, which WD acquired in March.

  • New WD drive

    Western Digital has released a 2TB version of its cool-running, low-power WD AV-GP line of SATA hard drives.

  • Western Digital buys SSD maker

    Western Digital has completed a US$65 million (NZ$281 million) cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, a maker of solid-state drives.

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