Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

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, ...

In context: While consumers have mostly replaced HDDs with solid state storage drives in their PC systems, NAS devices are still making use of traditional magnetic units. HDDs can offer significantly ...

I implore you for your expert advice. I have a computer set up with a 128GB SSD and 4 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives. In the last year I have had all 4 drives fail at one time or another, and I am not ...

I was wondering about the availability - did WD just not forecast demand for these things? The 3 TB is sold out everywhere... But advertising a 3-year warranty as "longer" depresses me. (to be fair ...

I remember the first HDD I owned in a system was 64MB. OK, I didn’t build that system, it was some pre-made piece of junk and it was ancient, and my first custom PC, way back in the 90s, friends ...

The transition marks the unspooling of the 2015 merger between the two firms, when Western Digital paid $19 billion for SanDisk to combine hard drive and ...

The new My Passport range of HDDs is now available with a maximum capacity of 6TB. That's a lot of storage to put in a pocket. We’re all using more and more data. With photos, videos, music files and ...