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by Rafael Hernandez on July 20, 2010 · 0 comments

Western Digital TV Live Plus HD media player photo

Getting your digital media to your PC has been a difficult proposition over the years but, thankfully, there are more software and hardware options that enable that easy media viewing your after…heck you don’t even need a bulky and energy draining “home theater PC” to get the job done anymore. The Western Digital TV Live […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2010 · 0 comments

Storage systems used to be the weakest link in a system lagging far behind processors and memory speeds which makes for quite the bottleneck when your CPU needs more data to crunch on. PC Perspective is trying to figure out which of their high-end storage setups offer the best performance: A four drive RAID 5 […]

Read more High End Storage Systems Compared proves your reads and writes can’t compare

by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2010 · 0 comments

Technologies tend to incorporate certain safety mechanisms in order to keep things working properly but as time goes on those early additions tend to spiral out of control and may require tweaking from time to time. Western Digital Advanced Format Technology, found in the WD10EARS, attempts to improve on drive performance while removing a good […]

Read more Western Digital Advanced Format Technology cuts down on the overhead

by Rafael Hernandez on October 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives will maintain their insanely comfortable lead when it comes to outright performance but when it comes to storage sizes we won’t be seeing anything remotely inexpensive from the technology for a good long while so you’ll have to rely on some form of mechanical storage in the meantime. The new Western Digital […]

Read more Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB sports speedy performance

by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Storage drives are getting all sorts of fine tuning for the green segment. While a single hard drive might not consume the sort of power that would change things dramatically the amount of power saved across a RAID array of…

Read more Western Digital 2TB Caviar, your choice of performance or energy saving

by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Western Digital has announced that they’ve begun shipping their new lineup of WD Scorpio Blue 2.5" SATA hard drives. What makes them so special? Well they’re offering 750GB and 1TB storage sizes in a surprisingly small form factor which should…

Read more Western Digital Launches 1TB Notebook Hard Drive, Storage Abounds

by Pedro Hernandez on June 9, 2009 · 0 comments

Are you finding that 1 TB of external storage is a paltry amount of room for your data? Then Western Digital has you covered with the anything-but-svelte My Book Studio Edition II with up to 4 TB–that’s terabytesof storage. Aimed…

Read more Western Digital Takes My Book External Drive to 4 TB

by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Notebooks had been lagging desktops in storage capacit for quite a while barely storing as much data as the modern road warrior needs in order to get things done. That’s no longer the case as The Tech Report has a…

Read more 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive Roundup, the Tiny Get Bigger

by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2009 · 0 comments

If you’re putting together an enterprise level server odds are you’re going to be doing something that’ll be thrashing your storage space quite a bit. AnandTech has a look at how solid state disk, serial attached SCSI, and plain old…

Read more SSD Versus Enterprise Level Hard Drives, A Tad Overkill For The Desktop

by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2009 · 0 comments

The ever increasing amounts of storage space being crammed into ye olde hard drive does wonders for people with lots of files to store, or those trying to consolidate years of drive purchases. Western Digital’s Caviar Green WD20EADS packs in…

Read more Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS, 2TB Of Storage Fun

by Rafael Hernandez on October 28, 2008 · 0 comments

The eco-friendly/save the planet theme continues to creep its way into computers around the world. First was the lead-free solder mandates, now Western Digital wants you to consider their Caviar Green 1TB hard drive for all of your storage needs….

Read more Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB Hard Drive Reviewed, Decidedly Greener