Today SanDisk announced that mainstream WD Blue and WD Black SSDs would be going away, to be replaced by SanDisk ...

Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the data storage industry, got dragged into a rather complicated controversy regarding hard disk technology and marketing. That drama also dragged others ...

Western Digital released more information regarding the technology its WD Red NAS HDDs use. Western Digital was pressured about its driving switching from CMR to SMR technology. Several lawsuits were ...

What just happened? Following controversy and multiple lawsuits over selling slower SMR disks under its Red family of NAS drives, Western Digital has announced that it's adding a new 'Red Plus' tier ...

The WD RED series by Western Digital is one that we’ve already have a lot of looks at. That doesn’t mean that we can’t have another one, does it? Today I’m putting the 8TB HDD through the paces and ...

Ars asked a senior Western Digital executive about pricing on the new Red and Red Plus lines. The initial answer given was “in general, we expect WD Red drives will be priced below WD Red Plus drives.

Western Digital has been in hot water for months over its attempt to sell SMR hard drives into the WD Red product family. Red drives are explicitly intended for NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, ...

With its 14TB capacity solution now on the market, consumers get more choice and the WD Red is certainly worth a look for those needing high capacity NAS drives. It has been quite a while since we ...

In context: WD, Seagate, and Toshiba were recently found - and acknowledged - using slower shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology in some of their hard drives, without mentioning the spec in ...

Storage giant WD splits its eponymous internal solid-state drives (SSDs) into six recognisable families. Performance is taken care of by various speedy drives under the Black umbrella, enterprise by ...

Western Digital is finding itself in some hot water for scaring people running its hard drives in network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The company's software that monitors drive health and other ...

One of the key specifications present on any hard drive is how fast it spins, with 5,400rpm and 7,200rpm being the two most well-known spinning speeds. However, Western Digital is muddying the waters ...