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1. Western Digital intros 640GB notebook drives

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   Hard drive company Western Digital said it has started volume shipping of its Scorpio Blue 640GB hard drives.Hard drive company Western Digital said it has started volume shipping of its Scorpio Blue 640GB ...

2. WD debuts 1TB 2.5 inch HDD

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   Western Digital has two new 2.5 inch mobile hard drives that should satisfy even the most profligate laptop user. Lake Forest (CA) - Western Digital has two new 2.5 inch mobile hard drives that should ...

3. World's oldest Bible goes online

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   ... into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the bible was transmitted from generation to generation," said Dr Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Manuscripts at the ...

4. Missing National Archives hard drive lacked any encryption

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   A security firm has hit out hard at US careleness in losing a terabyte of data which wasn’t even encrypted. A security firm has hit out hard at US careleness in losing a terabyte of data which wasn’t even ...

5. WD offers two terabytes for $299

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   Western Digital has announced the industry's largest hard drive to date, the 2TB WD20EVDS. Lake Forest, CA - Western Digital has announced the industry's largest hard drive to date, the 2TB WD20EVDS. ...

6. Western Digital launches 3.5" 2TB hard drive

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     Western Digital (WD) today released the industry’s first 2TB 3.5” hard drive, featuring a massive 500 GB per-platter capacity, which matches the storage density announced by its rival Seagate. ...

7. Enterprise HDDs shifting from 3.5" to 2.5" in mainstream size, says WD

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   ... to Paul Martin, Western Digital (WD) senior director for Worldwide Channel Marketing and Enterprise. Since 3.5" HDDs are advantageous in storage capacity, WD provides enterprise users with optimal solutions ...

8. VIDEO – Hands-on with the Fusion-io SSD, 13 World of Warcraft windows in 36 seconds

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   ... Interestingly enough, they hadn’t done this before and this would be an interesting “trial by fire”. Fortunately, we brought along our Western Digital Passport USB hard drive with our World of Warcraft ...

9. Hard drive industry shrugs off economic concerns, posts double digit growth rates

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   ... margins in the first quarter. Seagate reported $363 million in profits, or 11.7% of revenue, Western Digital announced $298 million, or a 14% return and Hitachi GST stated it had earned $65 million, or ...

10. Next-gen mobile GeForce surfaces in Taiwan stores

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    ... T9300 (clocked at 2.5 GHz) processor, 3 GB DDR2-667 memory, a 320 GB Western Digital hard drive and a 2x Blu-ray drive. The battery is good for 58 minutes of Blu-ray playback. Further down in the spec ...

11. HP pitches green printers, Samsung green hard drives

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    ... but assumed that Samsung considered the 13.4 watt maximum power consumption of its own 1 TB hard drive as well as Western Digital’s Greenpower hard drives, which claim to consume at least 4 watts less ...

12. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

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    ... 33.9% share according to iSuppli, new drives have been introduced by the competition – especially by Western Digital, Hitachi GST, Fujitsu and Toshiba. But Seagate has reclaimed the lead today in the ...

13. WD challenges SSDs with world’s fastest hard drive

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      Western Digital (WD) today introduced its new Velociraptor hard drive, a performance-tuned device that not only promises to offer a substantial speed increase over its predecessor, but is also ...

14. Western Digital reduces workforce by 800

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    Western Digital (WD) said that it will cutting about 800 employees from its global workforce of 42,500. The reduction is said to be primarily a result of a restructuring following the acquisition of disk ...

15. WD upgrades desktop hard drive to 320 GB per platter capacity

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      Western Digital’s mainstream desktop hard drives are getting a bump in capacity, as the manufacturer is upgrading its 2-platter 500 GB model to a 640 GB version. Lake Forest (CA) - Western Digital’s ...

16. OCZ announces super-fast SSD with 120MB/s read and 100MB/s write speeds

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    ... to Northern California). Truth to be told, prices are still a bit too steep, but if you remember the storm that Western Digital and its Raptor created on the enthusiast market, you can safely imagine ...

17. Verbatim releases sleek-looking mobile hard drives

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    ... Hard Disk. PHD drives are available in packages of 120, 160, 250 and 320GB, all achieved by using 2.5" hard drives (with 320GB being offered; can you say Western Digital?). Hard drives all run ...

18. TG Daily videos from PMA 2008

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    ... hands-on VIDEO – Panasonic shows off two insanely small camcorders Western Digital ups Passport line to 320 GB VIDEO: Delkin’s ImageRouter reads four ...

19. PMA 08 - Western Digital ups Passport line to 320 GB

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    Western Digital has refreshed its popular Passport portable USB drive line with higher capacity drives.  The renamed My Passport Essential will now have 320 gigabytes of capacity and is currently ...

20. Garmin announces … a cellphone?

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    ... automatically turns itself into a portable navigation device when you put it into its vehicle mount. Maps for North America, Eastern and Western Europe, or both, will be preloaded onto the nuvifone. There’s ...

21. 250 GB in notebooks going mainstream

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    ... market by a long shot; in fact Hitachi just announced a 500 GB 2.5” drive scheduled  to be introduced later this year, Samsung and Western Digital claim to be already shipping 250 GB and 320 ...

22. Western Digital: 1.8-inch HDD still requires further observation

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    While highlighting the power-saving capability for its Caviar GP-series hard-disk drives (HDDs), Western Digital (WD) revealed that it lists the 1.8-inch HDD segment as an item that requires further observation ...

23. Hitachi readies mobile 500 GB hard drive

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    ... Hitachi said. Currently, the largest laptop drive on the market is a 320 GB model by Western Digital Corp. Hitachi said Thursday that its 500 GB drive would be available to computer manufacturers in ...

24. Samsung ships 320 GB 2.5” hard drive

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    ... images, 100-hours of DVD movies or 38 hours of HD movies. As the previously released Western Digital 2.5” Scorpio 320 GB drive, the Samsung model is also rated at a disc rotations peed of 5400 rpm. ...

25. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

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    ... Seagate 160 GB $49.99* Best Buy Internal Seagate 320 GB $59.99 Best Buy External Western Digital 160 GB $69.99 ...

26. UPDATE: HD 3800: AMD’s Midrange Rebuttal - benchmarks

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    ...  Hard Drive Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADFD 150 GB, 10,000 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA150 Networking nForce4 ...

27. Western Digital ships 320 GB notebook hard drives

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    Western Digital (WD) today said that it has begun shipping its 2.5” Scorpio SATA hard drives with a capacity of 320 GB. Lake Forest (CA) – Western Digital (WD) today said that it has begun ...

28. Seagate planning to release a hybrid hard drive

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    ... headlines, but rather its competitions, including Western Digital, Fujitsu, Hitachi and Samsung. However, it looks like Seagate may come out of hiding soon, as a press release issued today is talking ...

29. Chinese company wants US disk drive company

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    ... was quoted as saying, "The U.S. government is freaking out."  Watkins continued to say that Seagate was not for sale.  Western Digital, meanwhile, refused to comment at all, says the ...

30. Western Digital's disk maker reports a loss for Q2

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    Komag, which was recently announced to be acquired by Western Digital for $1 billion, reported a 20% decrease in revenues and a loss for the second quarter of this year. San Jose (CA) – Komag, which ...

31. Western Digital annual hard drive shipments approach 100 million units

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    Western Digital (WDC) today announced a solid fiscal Q4 (FQ4) 2007 and fiscal year (FY) 2007 result. In the quarter ended June 30, the company shipped 24.9 million hard drives, up from 19.2 million units ...

32. Western Digital unleashes 2 TB external storage devices

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    Western Digital has upgraded its external My Book drive line with 2 TB versions. Lake Forest (CA) – Western Digital has upgraded its external My Book drive line with 2 TB versions.  The larger ...

33. Western Digital announces Green terabyte hard drives

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    Hard drives are among the most power hungry components in your PC. We have see several new ideas to cut power consumption of the devices with new technologies such as hybrid hard drives, but Western Digital ...

34. Fujitsu announces 300 GB 2.5” hard drive

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    ... competitive hard drive markets at this time, with capacities increases at a much faster pace than what we have seen in previous years. In May of this year, Hitachi and Western Digital introduced 2.5” ...

35. Western Digital acquires disk manufacturer Komag for $1 billion

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    Western Digital (WDC) today announced the acquisition of Komag, a developer and manufacturer of thin-film disk technologies, which enable the world’s second largest hard drive company to actually ...

36. I/O Magic announces 250 GB portable hard drive

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    ... says it can transfer data at rates of up to 480 Mb/s. Western Digital also recently introduced a portable 250GB hard drive, a capacity that is still on the high end of the desktop computer market. The ...

37. Hard drives get cheaper, profit margins decline

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    ... unit market share in the hard drive market at 34.6%.   Western Digital’s first-quarter gross margin was 15.7%, down from 19.3% one year ago. However, Western Digital’s net income in the ...

38. Google inks deal with University of Minnesota

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    ... University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State ...

39. WD ships 750 GB desktop hard drive

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    Western Digital (WD) is catching up in the PMR race: Following the introduction of a 250 GB 2.5” drive last month, the company has begun offering a 750 GB version of its Caviar SE16 3.5” drive. ...

40. Western Digital ships 250 GB notebook hard drive

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    Western Digital (is getting more aggressive in the perpendicular race and today said that it has begun shipping a 2.5” notebook hard drive with the industry’s “highest capacity.”Lake ...

41. Seagate increases lead in hard drive market

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    ... competitors were able to take advantage of what iSuppli calls a “market share vacuum” that was left over after the merger. From 2005 to 2006, Western Digital was able to grow its market share ...

42. WD rolls out networked hard drives

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    Growing video and music collections are slowly opening a few business opportunity for hard drive manufacturers: Shared storage devices allow consumers to access their digital content via an Internet connection ...

43. CES 2007: Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance

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    ... The new Hybrid Storage Alliance was founded by Seagate, Hitachi GST, Toshiba and Samsung and only misses Western Digital as the remaining top-2 hard drive vendor, which, however, as the only top-5 company ...

44. Shuttle rolls out high-end hand-painted gaming PC

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    ... with the Razer Mouse and Saitek gaming keyboard. But the computer doesn't just have looks; the insides are powered by 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor hard drives and at least 2GB of Crucial Ballistix ...

45. Perpendicular hard drives at 5% market share

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    ... Chander, analyst with iSuppli. Seagate dominated the ranking of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers with a market share of 34.3%, up from 34.1% in Q2 2006. The firm's closest competitor is Western ...

46. Black Friday shopping list

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    ... Best Buy Hard Drive Seagate 250 GB Int $59.99 Best Buy Hard Drive Western Digital 250 GB Ext $69.99 CompUSA Hard Drive Seagate 160 GB Int $19.99 CompUSA Hard Drive No Name 250 GB Ext $49.99 CompUSA Nb. ...

47. Samsung joins the perpendicular hard drive party

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    ... hard drive Western Digital intros its first perpendicular hard drive  ...

48. Western Digital intros its first perpendicular hard drive

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    Western Digital (WD) has caught up with other hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi and is offering its first hard drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). The new ...

49. Were there clues to the demise of E3?

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    ... and marketing people will say, 'Well, look, our research shows that people aren't interested in Westerns at the moment.'" Ubisoft senior producer Julien Gerighty added, "We do a lot of sequels, on a yearly ...

50. Costco selling 400 GB hard drives for $100

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    Just when you thought hard drive prices couldn't get any lower, certain Costco stores are selling 400 GB internal hard drives for $99.97. The Western Digital 7200 RPM drives have been available for a ...