WD releases a first-of-its-kind standard laptop internal storage drive that comes with a 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD on the inside. Here's CNET's full review of it. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor ...

WD has started shipping drives that drop the ancient 512 byte disk sector for a 4096 byte - 4k - sector. What's in it for you? And what will it do to you? Disks write your data in fixed chunks. For ...

I've always been able to clone using the software that comes with the new drive (shut down, install drive, boot to floppy, clone, good to go), until I hit a Dell last week that had some really odd ...

My home computing and home entertainment networks – with PC testing rigs, two working-from-home setups, and an iTunes media server streaming to a half dozen Apple TVs – has always meant that I employ ...

Ever heard a story involving Western Digital Green hard drives within a NAS? It probably didn't end well. For whatever reason, the aforesaid outfit's Green portfolio never has been a hit in the ...

After being snubbed by Hitachi in the race to push out the industry's first 1TB desktop hard drive, Western Digital made darn sure it was first to ship a 2TB version. Now, the company is raising its ...

One of my laptops now serves as a dedicated Ubuntu machine, acting as a perfect test device for testing apps and self-hosted services. But there's a severe lack of disk backup and system image ...