WD's NAS HDD market segmentation is a perfect example of the shrinking difference between top-of-the-line nearline/enterprise HDD's and consumer hardware. The WD Red series is geared for the SMB ...

We put four WD 4TB Red hard drives in our test system and take you through the performance of each RAID mode. Read on and let's see how they perform.

WD’s Purple series has no trouble here and it is designed to work in setups with up to 32 HD cameras. The WD Purple 6TB surveillance drive features 64MB cache and uses the well-known WD ...

Western Digital has created a great drive with their RED 6TB HDD. It is designed specific for NAS usage and is a drive that is perfect for RAID setups. We saw great performance figures in all our ...

Western Digital unveils 26TB Red Pro NAS drive, priced at $569.99 Built for RAID-optimized systems it promises 6Gb/s and 287MB/s transfer speeds Supports 550TB/year workloads and has a 5-year warranty ...

Western Digital has beefed up its My Book Pro line of external hard drives with a RAID-equipped model that packs in two HDDs to yield a whopping terabyte of unformatted storage capacity. The My Book ...

Finally a hard disk with a capacity of 5 TB appeared in 2014, to 20 TB in 2020-GIGAZINE One day, when the network administrator Alan Brown tried to add the WD HDD 'WD40EFAX' to the RAID array, an ...

Western Digital has finally admitted which of its hard drives are currently SMR and which are CMR, allowing customers to avoid a technology that may not be compatible with their existing hardware.

As a valued WD customer we want to make you aware of new reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9).

It's been quite a discussion, WD offering a NAS series that in hindsight, isn't RAID compatible because they are shingled magnetic recording drives. Shingled media recording (SMR) disk drives take ...