Western Digital has introduced the WD_Black SN770M M.2 2230 compact solid-state drive, designed specifically for portable gaming consoles such as Valve’s Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally. The new product is available in volumes of 500 GB as well...
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Western Digital (WD) is facing a class action lawsuit alleging defective SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs and subsequent loss of user data. Plaintiffs are seeking over $5 million in damages. The initiator of the process is Nathan Krum, who lives in...
Several publications and online communities were simultaneously talking about the mass failure of SanDisk external SSDs. The brand’s owner, Western Digital, previously announced a firmware release that should fix the problem, but portable...
Earlier this week, Western Digital released financial reports for the fourth fiscal quarter and full year. Alongside financial results, it said the company will soon begin testing 28TB hard drives designed for use in data centers (DPCs). Image...
Western Digital Corporation is much more dependent on the solid-state storage market than Seagate Technology and as a result, amidst lower prices in this segment, reported typical financial results not just in the fourth fiscal quarter, but...
After several months of negotiations, Western Digital and Kioxia will enter into a merger agreement in August. The deal will be formalized as a spin-off of Western Digital’s flash memory business and merger with Kioxia into a separate company...
Western Digital introduced the WD Blue SN580 NVMe bufferless SSDs. These are the first devices in the WD Blue NVMe PCIe 4.0 lineup to feature nCache 4.0 technology. Image source: Western Digital The WD Blue SN580 series of drives is aimed at...
In the fight against the consequences of the hack of its cloud platform, Western Digital went to extremes and blocked access to the cloud for devices with outdated firmware versions. Image source: westerndigital.com The ban took effect on June 15 –...
Western Digital (WD) is again suspected of using dubious methods to increase sales of its hard drives, writes Ars Technica. Synology NAS owners using WD WDDA-enabled drives are increasingly receiving warnings that the hard drive needs to be...
Western Digital has announced another PS5 SSD, the WD Black SN850P. The novelty is offered in three versions: with a volume of 1, 2 and 4 TB and has read/write speeds of 7300 MB/s and 6600 MB/s, respectively. However, its cost can hardly be...
Western Digital has decided to officially compete with Seagate in the Xbox expansion memory card market to announce The 512GB and 1TB models are suitable for Xbox Series X/S consoles and cost $79.99 and $149.99 respectively. Image source:...
Western Digital has expanded its range of Nintendo-licensed memory cards with the release of the 1TB SanDisk microSD drive for Nintendo Switch consoles. With the largest storage capacity in SanDisk’s officially licensed microSD card range...
In recent months, there have been numerous user reports on Reddit, Twitter and the SanDisk forums about incorrect operation of the SanDisk Extreme V2 and Extreme Pro V2 2TB and 4TB external SSD drives. It has now been announced that Western Digital...
Rumors of Kioxia and Western Digital’s intentions to merge assets related to the release of solid-state storage first surfaced back in 2021, but then disagreements arose during negotiations over the valuation of the two parties’ business...
On March 26, Western Digital reported a serious information security incident in its corporate network, which affected the developer’s and customers’ data and also caused a number of problems in the operation of the company’s...
Western Digital Corporation is unique in that it is also a major manufacturer of platter hard drives and solid state drives. Both market segments didn’t perform very well last quarter, resulting in a 36% year-over-year decline in the...
At the end of March, Western Digital, an American data storage manufacturer, had to declare that it had been the victim of a hacker attack that stole some of the information from the company’s cloud services. After a number of the...
reportedKioxia and WD will present a paper on today’s most advanced 300+ layer 3D NAND memory at the upcoming 2023 VLSI Symposium in June. Technologies will also be presented that will increase the speed of flash memories, for which a number...
Cybercriminals who hacked into Western Digital (WD) resources and stole sensitive data in late March 2023 released screenshots of internal emails and other documents, which they say indicate the company’s efforts to resolve the incident are...
The drop in demand for computer components and the drop in solid state drive prices could only affect the hard drive market and the Trendfocus statistics published by the resource Tom’s hardware, allows us to assess the quantitative...
