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Data centres have a very different set of requirements to compute or network attached storage use. WD’s Gold series now have a 10TB Helium filled drive that offers 2.5 million hours mean-time-between-failure.

Creative and media aficionados will enjoy using a NAS server with built-in Plex media server support.

It’s an external 2 or 3TB hard disk. It has a 10-hour battery. It has Wi-Fi AC dual band, an SD card, and USB connectivity. It has a Plex media server. It has everything a person on the go needs.

WD, owners of HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), are taking their Travelstar brand a step further with a new range of 2 and 3 TB mobile external "Touro" hard disks.

WD has added the purpose designed Helioseal ‘Gold’ range, especially for datacentres and high-reliability applications.

The new WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra provides up to 16TB of on-premise or private cloud.

Helium filled drives were the province of data centres for their reliability, speed, low power and lower cooling properties. Now WD has bought the technology to the consumer, prosumer and SOHO space.

The Internet of Things can refer to any device that connects to the internet or via Wi-Fi or Ethernet in a network. In this case routers and other connected devices. This is an overview of network connected devices I have reviewed or things I think meet the ‘pretty’ good specifications.

It is the world’s first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard disk drive (HDD) and provides the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB and the highest reliability rating of all HDDs on the market.

Seagate’s Q1/2016 (that is July to September 2015) reflect a declining volume of traditional hard disk sales.

Combining the processing power and storage of WD’s My Cloud network attached storage (NAS), and Milestone Arcus video surveillance software - up to 16 inexpensive industry standard ‘web’ cameras can monitor home or office security.

WD has released the My Book Pro featuring two Thunderbolt 2 interfaces for up to 20 Gb/s data transfer rates.

WD’s innovative hybrid, networked attached, and cloud accessible storage devices, have sold 1.6 million units and have 5 million registered users since launch. It has changed the way consumers and small business store and access content.

Popular for use in network-attached storage (MAS) Western Digital (WD) have released the 5 and 6TB Red Pro hard disks in Australia.

The WD Black range of hard drives for high-performance desktop systems now includes a 6TB version.

Since WD introduced the My Cloud series of network attached storage (NAS) with internet access in late 2013 there has been a growing movement to this type of storage.

Hailed as the world’s most power-efficient high capacity 3.5” hard disk the new WD Re+ drive is built for data centres that want to optimise power use.

WD's latest Purple disk drive for surveillance video storage has a capacity of 6TB.

WD has combined a 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) and a 1-terabyte hard disk drive (HDD) into a single, 2.5”, SATA, notebook sized, drive.

Hybrid hard drives are increasingly commonplace as a way of balancing the high performance of flash storage with the economy of magnetic disk. What's unusual about WD's approach is that it is openly working with flash specialist SanDisk.