If you currently find yourself locked out of your WD external hard drive with no means of recuperating your password, do not panic. There are some very simple solutions that you can implement to ...

A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives’ Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As I explained at the time, SMART is ...

To make your Western Digital hard drive work on both Mac and Windows computers, you need to format the drive with the FAT32 file system. Although both operating systems can format your drive with the ...

As a precaution, I always run OEM diags on new drives I just bought. I just picked up a WD RE 2000FYYZ yesterday. I connected it to my trusty old box with Asus P5Q-E motherboard (P45 Express chipset).

Storage – we can never get enough of it. Just when you thought you were safe for a while, along comes a new movie format, a change in work-flow, the sudden desire for lossless compression, and a ...

Whether your Mac has an old-school spinner or high-capacity Fusion Drive, it could always stand to gain a little extra room. Even if you don’t obsessively download full seasons of Breaking Bad, there ...

There is really no excuse for failing to back up your PC. External hard drives are ridiculously cheap these days and they’re a great option for making a second copy of all your files. Case in point: ...

Our appetite for data storage space knows no bounds, largely because of the videos and photos we create and the music files, movies and other data we download from the Internet. All this data needs to ...

Western Digital (WD) may have lost a bid to buy Toshiba's flash memory technology, but is still hard at work on its bread-and-butter hard drives. The company has unveiled a breakthrough called ...

Western Digital's bread and butter business is hard drives and solid state storage used in by cloud computing giants and in data centres around the world. Storage giant Western Digital has just ...