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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Western Digital has released a 2TB version of its cool-running, low-power WD AV-GP line of SATA hard drives.
Western Digital has completed a US$65 million (NZ$281 million) cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, a maker of solid-state drives.