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  Western Digital is now selling its fast 750GB 2.5-inch Scorpio Black HDD in the Indian market. The hard drive meant for notebooks and other portable storage devices supports SATA interface and promises desktop-like performance with spin speed of 7200RPM. Apart from giving additional capacity and speed, the Scorpio Black drive has a 16MB cache, [...]

  Western Digital has announced to takeover Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) for about $4.3 billion. The complete transaction will be split in cash and stock with cash taking $3.5 billion and $750 million by way of shares. The acquisition has been approved by board of directors of each company and is expected to [...]

  From DVD players, Home Theatres to Blu-ray players, entertainment has taken a leap from one form to another. In fact, people even watch movies on their PCs. We don’t mind to sacrifice the sheer pleasure of watching our favourites on our Full HD LCD TVs probably for the reason that we don’t want to [...]

  Seagate who were apparently on sale have turned down the takeover deal from its competitor, Western Digital. Sources have told Bloomberg that both companies were in talks after the discussion ended with TPG Capital. Western Digital reportedly was willing to offer 10 to 50 percent more than TPG, which is said to be over [...]

  Western Digital has expanded its WD TV lineup for the Indian market with the introduction of WD TV Live Hub. Unlike all the previous offerings, the new WD TV Live Hub comes with an integrated storage, eliminating the need for the users to hook up an additional USB drive to enjoy multimedia content. The [...]

  WD has launched an upgrade to its WD TV Live HD multimedia player. The new WD TV Live Plus HD player now comes with Netflix movie streaming support. Users can browse, add movies and TV Shows to their Instant Queue from the Netflix interface in the player. However, other than that rest of it [...]

  Western Digital’s WD TV Live has become the first network-based media player to earn the ‘Compatible with Windows 7’ certificate. The compliance comes with a newly added Play To feature found in Windows 7. With Play To, users can stream content to the player from their Windows 7 PC within Windows Media Player 12. [...]

  It’s always good to see products being launched in India soon after they get their official unveiling in the international market. Couple of weeks back Western Digital announced a portable HDD optimized for audio and video storage/playback and now it’s available for the Indian consumers. The My Passport AV HDD comes in 320GB capacity [...]

  Western Digital has added another Mac friendly hard drive to its portfolio. The My Passport SE comes in capacities of 750GB and 1TB and is pre-formatted in HFS+ to support Macs out-of-the-box. The drives are USB 2.0 powered and WD says they draw power from the computer instead of the external power supply. Additionally, [...]

  SiliconEdge Blue SSDs that started shipping last week in US market is now shipping in India. The 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are developed for read-intensive applications. The SiliconEdge Blue SSDs come in storage sizes of up to 256GB and supports 3Gbps SATA interface that helps to achieve a read speed of up to 250MB/sec [...]

  Western Digital has introduced a new USB HDD that is claimed to be a perfect solution for users who want to store and view video content from their portable drives. The 320GB My Passport AV is optimized in such a way that it stays at normal temperatures in a hot environment, operates quietly, consumes [...]

  WD has announced that they’re now shipping their high performance SiliconDrive N1x SSDs. The 2.5-inch SSD is apt for OEM applications and feature fast read/write speeds. The single-level cell (SLC) based SSDs support native 3Gb/s SATA interface and gives read/write speeds of up to 240/140MB per second. It also boasts WD’s Speed Assurance tech [...]

  WD has introduced its My Passport Studio Portable hard drives in India. The drive appeals to Mac users because of its integrated FireWire 800 port, pre-formatted with HFS+, TimeMachine support, 256-bit hardware based encryption and automatic as well as continuous backup with WD’s bundled SmartWare software. Additionally, the drives also have an USB 2.0 [...]

  Western Digital has introduced a new My Book external desktop storage solution for the Indian market. The My Book 3.0 comes in capacities of 1TB and 2TB (expected later this month) and supports the newer, faster SuperSpeed USB 3.0. In fact, it is one of the first devices to be certified to work flawlessly [...]

  Western Digital stepped into the digital home entertainment with WD TV. WD TV was a solid built device that allowed users to watch hi-definition movies, pictures or even listen to music right on their television set. And needless to say, it pleased the crowd even though it lacked one of the most important features [...]