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Western Digital Releases ‘Gold’ HDDs for Datacenters
Coloured drives have long been a mainstay of Western Digital branding. The old Blue, Black, and Greens were supplemented in recent years by the addition of the Red and Purple lineups. Today, Western Digital has released…
Western Digital’s Acquisition of SanDisk Finally Approved
In a deal that has been months in the making, Western Digital today announced that their shareholders had voted to approve the $19 billion purchase of SanDisk. It was revealed that over 90% of WD’s shareholders…
QNAP TAS-268 QTS and Android Combo NAS Review
Introduction In today’s review, I am taking a look at a NAS that comes with a twist that we previously haven’t seen out-of-the-box. I’m talking about QNAP’s TAS-268 NAS which is a 2-bay hybrid NAS that…
Western Digital Introduces Consumer Helium Hard Drives
As always with most technology, helium hard drives arrived first to the enterprise segment. Over 3 years since HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary, first announced their helium-filled HDD, Western Digital is coming out with their first…
SilverStone MS08 Mobile Rack 3.5-inch RAID Enclosure Review
Introduction Today I am taking a look at something a little different from my usual drive and NAS reviews, today I’m taking a closer look at the SilverStone MS08 mobile rack that converts a single 3.5-inch drive…
WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review
Introduction We have already had the pleasure to see how WD’s 6TB Purple surveillance hard disk performed in our previous review, but WD was kind enough to provide us with two of these drives and thereby…
WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive Review
Introduction In today’s review, I am taking a look at a mechanical hard disk, but it isn’t one that is intended for your desktop system. Western Digital created their Purple line of hard disk drives to…
Chinese Firm takes up 15% Stake in Western Digital
In a move that is sure to surprise some, Unisplendour Corporation Limited (Unis), a Chinese firm, is taking up a 15% stake in Western Digital. With an investment of $3.775 billion, Unis will be the largest single…
Western Digital Drops ‘Green’ Drives in Favor of ‘Blue’
Western Digital has had several lines of hard drives for the past few years. Today, the lineup shrinks a bit as the WD Green brand gets folded into the WD Blue lineup. This move is apparently…

WD Announces My Book Pro Thunderbolt 2 DAS
Thunderbolt 2 has opened up for whole new possibilities thanks to the great throughput possibilities, daisy chaining, and universal usability. WD announced their newest and their fastest external storage solution, the My Book Pro, that is based…
Western Digital Announced MyCloud OS 3 and Adds Arcus Surveillance Software
Western Digital has a great line-up of NAS devices that already come with a lot of good features and plenty of functionality, we’ve seen that for ourselves recently in the review of the WD EX4100 NAS.…
First Prototype Seagate HAMR HDDs limited to 4TB
Even as we transition more and more to speedy SSDs, developments are still occurring in HDD land. Having explored the limits of what is practical with Helium filled Shingled Magnetic Recording drives, Seagate is moving onto…
WD Announces 6TB Sized Red Pro and Black HDDs
Western Digital just announced the expansion of the portfolio with not just one, but two 6TB drives. Actually, that’s not entirely true as there’s also new 5TB drives in the announcement, making it four new drives…
Toshiba MQ02 Series 500GB SSHD Review
Introduction There are a lot of storage drives on the market to choose from and picking the right drive is a matter of budget and situational needs. Notebook users don’t have as many choices as they’re…
Synology DiskStation DS215+ 2-Bay NAS and All-In-One Server Review
Introduction Last month I had the pleasure to take a look at the Synology DS715 [review here] 2-bay NAS and today I continue with Synology’s second recently released NAS, the Synology DiskStation DS215+. The DS215+ is…
Synology DiskStation DS715 2-Bay Value NAS Review
Introduction It has been a while since I had the pleasure to review a Synology NAS which makes it even more of a pleasure to take the brand new Synology DiskStation DS715 2-bay NAS for a…
WD Turns Their Blue Series Into SSHD Drives
Western Digital has a colourful range of hard drives which is kinda fitting right now with everyone turning their Facebook profile into a rainbow. We know the RED NAS drives very well from our review section and…
WD My Cloud EX4100 4-Bay Expert Series 16TB NAS Review
Introduction We ain’t all equally skilled when it comes to the configuration of network and storage devices nor is it everyone that has the same interest in that. Sometimes you just want to purchase something, enter…

WD Announced 7th Generation My Passport Portable Drives
WD took their highly successful My Passport portable hard drive for a redesign and overhauled the features to bring out the new My Passport Ultra portable hard drive and My Passport for Mac drives. This is now…
WD Adds Plex Media Server Support for My Cloud Line Up
WD has made their My Cloud lineup of personal storage servers even better with the addition of the Plex Media Server. Plex is a very popular entertainment app and My Cloud users can now enjoy it…
WD RED 2.5-Inch 1TB in Four-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Western Digital launched their WD RED line quite a while ago, and it’s been a successful one. We’ve previously had a look at how the 2.5-inch version with 1TB capacity performs as a single disk,…
Thecus N5810 Pro Zero-Crash 5-Bay High-Performance NAS Review
Introduction Thecus have created a new NAS that is something just a little bit special, if not a lot of special. It looks pretty normal on the surface, but it comes packed full of great features,…
Western Digital Introduced the Purple NV 4TB and 6TB NVR HDDs
Western Digital introduced the new WD Purple NV hard disk, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch high-capacity drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems. The new Purple NV drives will be…
HGST Ships NVMe Ultrastar SN100 Series SSDs
HGST, that is a part of Western Digital, announced that they’re now shipping their newest and the industry’s highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs, the Ultrastar SN100 Series. The PCIe SSD drives come as both HH-HL standard PCIe cards,…
WD Introduced My Passport X with 2 TB for Xbox One and PC
Games keep increasing in size and having a game with 50GB data isn’t an unusual thing these days. This is particular a problem for console users with limited space and it ends with the result that…
Western Digital RED 6TB 3.5″ NAS HDD Four Disk RAID Review
Introduction We have recently taken a look at the WD RED 6TB hard disk drive designed for NAS usage, and today it is time to see how these drives perform in a 4-disk RAID setup. Western Digital…
New WD Re+ Hard Drive Offers 6 TB While Consuming Only 6 Watts
Western Digital has introduced a new data centre hard drive with high-capacity and low power consumption. The WD Re+ hard drive family is the newest component of WD’s portfolio that further got expanded with 6TB capacities…