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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Super-fast performer, this 10,000 rpm drive leaves the competition–including WD’s previous Raptors–in its wake. Western Digital picked an appropriate name for its new 10,000-rpm (rotations per minute) ...

Long-time Mac upgrade vendor OWC will soon launch SMART Alec, a utility to keep an eye on the health reporting data from SSDs, hard drives, and Fusion Drives connected to a Mac. SMART Alec's Advanced ...

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 ...

Company Leverages Core HDD and Flash Capabilities to Help Customers Meet Exponential Demand for Data Storage; Innovative Drive Architecture Sets New Areal Density Milestone SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS ...