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Severe flooding in Thailand will reduce disk drive supplies for months to come.

The revamped WD TV Live media player includes 802.11n wireless connectivity and support for a range of Internet content providers - but no Australian TV catch-up services are on the list.

With 1TB hard drives normally 12.5mm and too big for most notebooks that can only take 9.5mm drives, Western Digital's slim and trim HDD fits that 9.5mm mould, giving road warriors more space to store.

The latest batch of WD external drives aimed at the Mac market come in 1TB, 2T2 and 3TB versions. THe WD My Book Studio features FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 interfaces.

The growing use of digital video will be assisted by WD's latest high-capacity drives.

Two of the leading manufacturers of hard drives and other storage devices are teaming up. Samsung's disk drive operations will be transferred to Seagate as part of a $US1.375 billion deal.

WD's new MyBook Live NAS device promises home users speedy access to shared data, with an emphasis on sharing videos, music and other media.

WD says its new HomePlug AV compliant adaptors provide sufficient throughput for seven HD video devices.

Western Digital now allows Australians to purchase from its e-commerce site

A new, free iPhone app from WD provides remote access to photos stored on the company's networked drives.

WD claims its new Scorpio Blue 750GB hard drive is the highest capacity 2.5in notebook drive on the market.

WD reckons the consumer market is ready for solid state drives. But price is still a barrier.