Tag Archives: Western Digital

Disk capacity growing out-of-sight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ray

Last week, Hitachi Global Storage Division(acquired by Western Digital, closing in 4Q2011) and Seagate announced some higher capacity disk drives for desk top applications over the past week. Most of us in the industry have become somewhat jaded with respect … Continue reading →

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When will disks become extinct?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it.  Also, last … Continue reading →

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WD’s new SiliconEdge Blue SSD data write spec

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Ray

Western Digital (WD) announced their first SSD drive for the desktop/laptop market space today.  Their drive offers the typical256, 128, and 64GB capacity points over a SATA interface.  Performance looks ok at 5K random read or write IO/s with sustained … Continue reading →

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