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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hard drive failure data from cloud backup service Backblaze has Western Digital and Hitachi coming out on top -- and Seagate upping its game Last year, cloud backup service Backblaze crunched ...

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 ...

Under the terms of the settlement, Western Digital will offer free backup-and-recovery software to customers who bought its hard drives between March 22, 2001, and ...

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) ...