Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the data storage industry, got dragged into a rather complicated controversy regarding hard disk technology and marketing. That drama also dragged others ...

WD's Red series of products such as hard disks has long been seen as premium and high-performing products with an emphasis on network attached storage use, but the company has finally released a ...

The WD RED series by Western Digital is one that we’ve already have a lot of looks at. That doesn’t mean that we can’t have another one, does it? Today I’m putting the 8TB HDD through the paces and ...

Ars asked a senior Western Digital executive about pricing on the new Red and Red Plus lines. The initial answer given was “in general, we expect WD Red drives will be priced below WD Red Plus drives.

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 ...

Western Digital released more information regarding the technology its WD Red NAS HDDs use. Western Digital was pressured about its driving switching from CMR to SMR technology. Several lawsuits were ...

With its 14TB capacity solution now on the market, consumers get more choice and the WD Red is certainly worth a look for those needing high capacity NAS drives. It has been quite a while since we ...

What just happened? Following controversy and multiple lawsuits over selling slower SMR disks under its Red family of NAS drives, Western Digital has announced that it's adding a new 'Red Plus' tier ...

We're seeing a lot more in the way of solid state server storage become a thing, as folks may want a smaller and less noisy solution than good old spinning disk media, or to add a durable SSD to an ...

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, ...

Storage giant WD splits its eponymous internal solid-state drives (SSDs) into six recognisable families. Performance is taken care of by various speedy drives under the Black umbrella, enterprise by ...