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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.

Storage solutions vendor Western Digital has formed a joint venture with IT services and solutions group Unisplendor (Unis) to sell its current data centre storage systems in China and to develop future solutions for the Chinese market.

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

Is WhatsApp really worth as much as SanDisk? Facebook eventually paid even more, but with Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, the combined companies' future looks to being a brightly solid state.

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

All-flash storage vendor Violin Memory has appointed Michael Burnie as country manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Enterprise storage vendor HGST has announced a raft of new products aimed at a variety of data centre applications.

Western Digital subsidiary HGST has released new SAS SSDs with capacities up to 1.6TB.

Hardware and software company Oracle has become a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and has announced a set of plans to add OpenStack compatibility or integration to a range of its products.

Cloud – in its most basic form – is about using the internet to store and retrieve data. Cloud can be anywhere, using any storage device and has many providers e.g. SkyDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, and Amazon et al.

WD has added Dropbox integration to its WD 2go mobile app.

Storage vendor WD has introduced a new line of disk drives designed specifically for use in NAS units.

Western Digital's HGST subsidiary claims to be the first to ship enterprise-class 4TB drives.

Hitachi GST claims its latest Ultrastar solid state drives are the first enterprise-class SSDs to use 25 nanometre SLC NAND flash memory technology.

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.

Devices purchased from Apple are a delight to behold. There's one catch though: there should be no hardware glitches.

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