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Much like when the original Western Digital WD TV Media Player was released last November, the new and updated version has also quietly slipped into Best Buy.  The updated model has been dubbed the WD TV Live Media Player and is now priced 10 bucks less than the original at… Continue Reading »

Carrying around your collection of videos, music, photos, and maybe even work documents got even easier today as two 640GB 2.5-inch hard drives were unveiled from Samsung and Western Digital.  Both units spin at 5400RPM and cost $149.99 and claim to be very quiet (Samsung has its “SilentSeek” and “Noiseguard”… Continue Reading »

As HD movies become more abundant and files generally increase in size over time it becomes almost necessary to have ways to transport large files.  Portable external hard drives have been limited to 256GB and 500GB in memory size.  However, Western Digital announced the availability of a 750GB My Passport… Continue Reading »

This week’s list is dedicated to the march of technology that continues to screw me over.  I’ll show you the things I’ve finally coughed up actual cash for only to have the gadgets eclipsed and rendered obsolete by updates.  Faster, cheaper, better; these attributes are only available on the product… Continue Reading »

While it may look like Western Digital has gone into the mini-fridge business, that’s not the case.  That giant-looking silver box is an 8TB network attached storage device with gigabit Ethernet.  Nope, that’s no typo—eight terabytes in one box with gigabit Ethernet.  It is called the WD ShareSpace and is… Continue Reading »

Remember when you bought that PC with the 1.6 GB hard drive and said, “I’ll never fill this up.”  Me too.  Fortunately, hard drive manufacturers are not that short sighted.  Western Digital has announced their newest and largest drive from their Caviar Green family.  And at a whopping 2 TB,… Continue Reading »

Unlike most product releases today, Western Digital has released their TV HD media player with no extravagant advertising.  The tiny device allows you to plug in external USB hard drives, up to two simultaneously, and play any video content stored on them, on your TV.  It outputs video to your… Continue Reading »

Not only is Western Digital concern with introducing various colors of its portable USB hard drives, but it looks like it has also been working on giving us more storage capacity for their My Passport HD product line. If the 320GB capacity of previous models of both the My Passport… Continue Reading »

Hard drives are the next set of tech gadgets to get a fresh shot of color. As we told you about before, the WD My Passport Essential HD is coming in a range of 11 colors, including black and white (I always forget if they are considered colors or not),… Continue Reading »

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Western Digital has taken the wraps off their new Scorpio Black notebook hard drive lineup. The 2.5-inch drives range from 80 up to 320GB in capacity, providing a wide variety for every type of laptop user.  The drives spin at a speedy 7,200RPM and sport 16MB of cache. Both of these… Continue Reading »