Western Digital
Western Digital are thousands of people worldwide working to help you collect, manage and use digital information. Their reliable hard drives and solid state drives are just about everywhere that digital information and content is found, from computers to external and portable storage devices, and from digital video recorders in living rooms to sophisticated medical, military, aerospace, manufacturing and telecommunications systems. Their customers are some of the largest companies in the world, as well as you, who could be using a WD drive right now.
WD high-capacity, durable drives securely store your videos, music and photographs on computers and are quiet, frugal on power and deliver your content fast. Because so much of what you do is now recorded in digital form, WD makes it easy to safely store and share the articles of our lives, and to make duplicates to prevent loss. WD designs and markets plug-and-play external storage devices that expand the capacity of our computers and personal video recorders. They carry a WD label and are found at retailers worldwide. They also make media players that enable you to enjoy your digital content on the biggest screen in your house - your TV.
Businesses take advantage of WD's high quality and reliability with our enterprise drives in their servers and expansive corporate storage systems, quickly providing critical information to their workers. WD's green storage leadership enables these businesses to significantly reduce their data centers' carbon footprint, while increasing their capacity and saving money with lower power consumption.
Recent Articles
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WD Provides Update on Effect of Thailand Floods
Western Digital have announced that it has extended the suspension of its operations in Thailand. Over the weekend, rising water penetrated the Bang Pa-in Industrial Park flood defenses, inundating the company's manufacturing facilities there and submerging some equipment.
17 October 2011
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Western Digital's new drives expand laptop storage to 1TB
Western Digital is helping to break new ground with its new Scorpio Blue SATA series of 2.5-in. laptop drives by adding two 1TB models: the 9.5mm-high, 5400rpm WD10JPVT and the 12.5mm-high, 5200rpm WD10TPVT. Both models have an 8MB buffer and are 3Gb/s compatible. For this article, the shorter 9.5mm WD10JPVT has been reviewed.
14 October 2011
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WD reports impact on HDD production due to severe flooding in Thailand
Western Digital have announced that production of hard drives in its facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, will be constrained in the current quarter due to the severe flooding in Thailand. The flooding is causing problems with the region's infrastructure, including transportation and utilities, and has resulted in the inundation of some supplier facilities and employee homes.
12 October 2011
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WD Scorpio Black 750GB wins Legit Reviews Editor's Choice Award
Legit Storage Reviews recently took a look at the WD Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT 750GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA notebook hard drive. With a 7200 RPM drive speed, 16MB cache, and 3 GB/s SATA interface speed, the 750GB Western Digital Scorpio Black hard drive is the largest 7200 RPM drive that Western Digital offers right now.
01 August 2011
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European Commission entering Phase II Review of WD proposed acquisition
Western Digital Corporation today said it was informed by the European Commission (EC) that the EC would enter a Phase II review of WD's previously announced acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' holding company, Viviti Technologies Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. The company is co-operating fully with the EC in the Phase II review.
30 May 2011
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