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  IN PICTURES: Product showcase at ISS 2013

• Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2013 10:15

  HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.

• IN PICTURES: Product showcase at ISS 2013

  By Nermin Bajric | 15 May, 2013 20:25

  The Intel Solutions Summit 2013 featured a show-floor housing an abundance of Intel-powered products.

• Western Digital and SanDisk deliver their first hybrid drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2013 18:44

  Western Digital has unveiled more information on its first hybrid solid-state drive, revealing that it worked with SanDisk to create the 500GB drive.

• WD shrinks laptop drives to just 5mm thick

  By Lucas Mearian | 23 April, 2013 18:29

  Western Digital is now shipping what it said is the world's first 2.5-inch, 5mm hard drives and solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) for use in ultra-slim notebooks.

• WD releases first 12Gbps SAS SSDs

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 April, 2013 10:16

  WD subsidiary HGST today released the world's first 12Gbps SAS and Fibre Channel SSD line, which sport top speeds of 1,200MB/s.

• Western Digital claims HDD capacity doubled with nanotech breakthrough

  By Lucas Mearian | 01 March, 2013 19:13

  Western Digital's HGST Labs announced a breakthrough in the ability to double HDD capacity through two innovative nantechnologies -- self-assembling molecules and nanoimprinting.

• Hitachi unveils first 10K rpm 1.2TB hard drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 29 January, 2013 17:55

  Hitachi today announced the industrys highest-capacity 10,000rpm enterprise-class hard drive, the Ultrastar C10K1200.

• Western Digital acquires Arkeia to boost SMB storage offering

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 January, 2013 11:52

  Western Digital has acquired data protection company Arkeia Software as it looks to address growing storage demands among small and medium-size companies.

• Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 September, 2011 07:16

  In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

• Lab notes: Kingston vs. VelociRaptor storage smackdown

  By Alex Wawro | 15 July, 2010 10:44

  It's time for a storage upgrade, but your budget won't bear the burden of both a blazing new VelociRaptor hard drive and an extra injection of Kingston RAM. Decision time: if you're looking to improve general performance on the cheap, do you shell out for more RAM or a high-performance hard disk?

• First USB 3.0 tests: Western Digital's My Book sails through

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 06 January, 2010 13:43

  The Western Digital My Book 3.0 desktop external drive will be one of the first to market with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. Announced today, the 1TB version is available for sale today; the 2TB is due later this week. So does USB 3.0 deliver on its promises? We got the 1TB My Book 3.0 into the PC World Lab, and our early results look very promising.

• Western Digital drive creates dilemma for laptop buyers

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 28 July, 2009 08:52

  It's pretty much a given that solid state drives (SSDs) are the future of PC storage, and that hard drives are on the way out. But if you're buying a laptop today, which option is best?

• Seagate, Western Digital go green with new 2TB drives

  By Rich Ericson | 22 July, 2009 20:25

  Capitalizing on the buzz around green IT, Seagate and Western Digital have released new "green" hard drives designed to use less power (in part by spinning more slowly than the latest generation of drives) and produce less heat (thus requiring less cooling).