Tag archive: Jim Welsh

Western Digital has taken the wraps off its first storage solution aimed explicitly at the small office market—although we're sure a few folks with home networks might be interested too. The new WD ShareSpace systems are a four-bay solution offering capacities of up to 4 TB, along with gigabit Ethernet and ease of use designed to make the systems an easy transition for folks already using the company's external drives.… Read More

WD—a.k.a. Western Digital—has unveiled a new 320 GB version of its Passport portable hard drive. The unit weighs less than 5 ounces, and, since it can power itself off a USB 2.0port, there's no awkward power brick to carry around in order to access data. The drive also comes with WD Sync software to make it easier for consumers to take their desktop content with them, along with 128-bit encryption technology to keep the… Read More

In a short amount of time the number of hard drive vendors offering 2 TB storage solutions to everyday consumers has grown from “barely any” to a respectable collection. That group is now even larger, as Western Digital announces that all its dual-drive My Book external hard drives are now available in 2 TB capacities. The dual-drive models are handily identified by the Roman numeral II after their name, so the models offering 2… Read More

Western Digital yesterday announced a new miniature USB hard drive storage device which can reportedly store as many as five two hour feature length movies, 1,700 digital photos, 1,500 songs or thousands of documents. The new WD Passport Pocket Drive is priced at $129 and should be available now. The WD Passport Pocket Drive, said Western Digital, is about the size of a matchbox, measuring about one-third of an inch thin and weighing 1.6… Read More

Hard drive maker Western Digital yesterday rolled out a stylish line of external FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 hard drives designed to stand vertically on desktops and bookshelves. The new My Book series is available in prices ranging from $179.99 to $349.99. The My Book hard drive series, said Western Digital, has what the company describes as a "unique, iconic-book shaped enclosure". The drives, which comes in a basic USB 2.0 version as… Read More