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WD says its new SanDisk portable SSD "offer great speed and durability to help consumers move rich content with ease, including two drives offering nearly 2x speeds over the previous generation".

Storage vendor Western Digital has announced a new range of back-up drives that use NVMe technology and come in sizes ranging from 500GB to 2TB.

Western Digital has recalled the power supply provided with certain My Passport Wireless Pro and SSD Hard Drive models.

HPE has warned users of four models of its SAS solid state drives that the devices, which are used in servers and storage products, could die after 40,000 hours of operation unless a firmware fix is applied.

Leader Computers is now a distributor of Western Digital's storage products.

Available in Australia at last, WD's new wireless SSD is "designed for avid photographers and drone enthusiasts who require durable and high-performance media capture solutions", and for anyone else that feels the need for wireless speed.

Storage vendor Western Digital has released what it claims to be the biggest conventional magnetic recording hard drive in the industry at 14TB.

With PC gamers on the cutting edge of performance and hyper-realistic immersiveness featuring ever richer and more intensive visual content, you will surely feel the need for super fast storage speed!

A research firm has released details of vulnerabilities in some of Western Digital's MyCloud devices, after having waited in vain for the manufacturer to issue patches.

Western Digital still makes top-notch hard drives in ever larger capacities, and is now a true SSD competitor with its 64-layer 3D SSD tech making moves for market supremacy.

A consortium comprising Apple, Dell Technologies and Bain Capital has reportedly agreed to acquire Toshiba's NAND flash memory manufacturing unit.

Western Digital’s new 12TB hard drives are claimed to “enable users to efficiently and reliably store large amounts of business-critical data".

NAND isn’t the nickname of your grandmother, but the technology in the storage chips inside your smartphones, tablets and computers, with Western Digital announcing an industry first.

Western Digital has announced pilot production of a 512Gb, three-bit per cell (X3), 64-layer, 3D NAND (BICS 3D) chip from its production partner Toshiba’s Yokkaichi plant in Japan.

WD has upped the capacity of its proven Ultrastar 12TB He12, a fourth generation, 3.5”, helium-filled hard disk drive, to 14TB and a 7.68TB NVMe, PCIe SSD for use in data centres.

Leading storage analyst Tom Coughlin predicts storage needs and trends – his latest forecast is that there will be a 6.2 times (that is a 620%) increase in storage needed for entertainment needs alone by 2021.

Hard drives from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have come out ahead of the pack as far as reliability goes, in figures released by the storage services provider Backblaze.

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

Revera, New Zealand's leading cloud services provider, has installed the HGST Active Archive System as its cloud-scale data repository, Revera Vault.

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.