WD India releases 4TB USB 3.0 version of My Book external storage drive model WDBACW0040HBK. The MSRP for the drive is Rs. 14,999/- + taxes. The lower capacity 2TB comes with an MSRP of Rs. 7,999/- + taxes and 3TB comes with Rs. 9,999/- MSRP. All drives are with 3 years of warranty period. It [...]

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WD recently announced that they’ve hooked up with SanDisk to make a Hybrid storage drive. According to the press release, SanDisk will be providing their iSSD chips to be used by WD within their WD Black lineup on their 2.5″ form factor. SanDisk’s iSSD NANDs are keeping mobile computing, faster bootup, more responsive for application [...]

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The Thailand floods had a devastating efforts on the mechanical storage market event after 18 months, but it seems that the prices of hard drives are steadily coming back to pre-flooded times. The report points towards the graphs where the data is collected by Dynamite data who were able to provide very detailed data set [...]

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WD sends a 500GB Blue Series drive with a 7mm thickness form-factor. There’s really nothing much to be said, but slimmer 2.5mm drives are 7mm thick. Some 7mm thick drives were reviewed in the past and they have many good usefulness such installing them on an ultrabook or pretty decent alternate to install in a [...]

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WD sent their Caviar Black version of 2TB drive: 2002 FAEX for evaluation. Last time when I reviewed the WD Red series, it made a good impression especially when it comes to temperatures during load. It makes a lot more sense to go for such drives when you’re considering RAID 0 configurations, although I am [...]

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