The Western Digital NAS communicate with Dropbox

An update of the WD 2 GB application adds compatibility with DropBox.

The storage giant seeks to innovate for its range of NAS products, storage of data at home servers, by proposing an extension to all products My Book Live, My Book Live Duo and My Net N900 central HD.

In addition to its NAS products, the U.S. firm offers an application for mobile and IOS, but under Android, tablets to fly under the name WD 2 GB. An update of this application allows today, in addition to the copy of multimedia content on mobile and tablets, to send directly from the content from these devices and his sin to the Dropbox storage space.

Thus, it is possible to copy data directly from the NAS Western Digital to Dropbox space from anywhere with his mobile phone. It is also possible to send an e-mail containing a link redirecting directly to the household and this Sin from the WD 2 GB application.

The application itself is free and available on the iTunes AppStore, Google Play and Amazon Appstore applications stores, and is of course pair with one of the products in the range of Western Digital Personal Cloud Storage.

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Western Digital Red: optimized for the NAS disks

After the Green, Blue and Black, Western Digital discovers a new color and turns red.

Disk tray storage giant announced a new range in its already quite thick catalogue. If one knew the Western Digital "Green" at low speed of rotation and consuming less energy, the "Blue" midrange disk that can meet any needs and the "Black" for performance, going to have to get used to the "Red".

Western Digital therefore opens a new line this time dedicated to type NAS storage servers. To argue this launch, Western Digital relies on problems of reliability for hard disks of other lines that are normally not expected to operate 24/7.

On the menu of this range, optimizations around power consumption while offering specific tools to disks RAID mode operation. For example, with its NASware technology, the data after error recovery is directly integrated to avoid to discus in default too quickly in a RAID cluster. There are also compatible with the ATA Streaming, become essential for storage applications audio and video such as Windows Media Center that relies on this technique.

These hard drives are built around 64 MB cache SATA III bus and offer three sizes of 1 To 3 TB storage. The speed of rotation of the plateaus is variable according to the IntelliPower and the flow can go up to 150 MB/s sequential read. The public price of the 1 TB version is €99,90 (WD10EFRX), the 2TB is €129,90 (WD20EFRX) and finally the 3 To €189,90 (WD30EFRX), all being accompanied by a 3 year warranty. We hope that this new range is not only a change of color on a label for a little more expensive sell these hard drives, and that differences with the Green discs will be well notable for use in a home NAS.

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Western Digital: a centre of R & D for SSD at Taiwan

Western Digital continues to invest on the SSD. Still not to the general public, but perhaps soon...

If Western Digital seems to begin to see the end of the tunnel in Thailand for the production of hard drives, the constructor think to start on the growing market of disks to flash for the public memory. Indeed, we learn that Western Digital is about to set up a centre of R & D in Hsinchu (Taiwan) of 50 specialists whose work will be entirely devoted to the development of DSS.

Currently, Western Digital has already a centre of R & D of SSD in his headquarters in the United States with approximately 200 engineers, but the creation of this new unit of research and development demonstrated the willingness of the manufacturer to accelerate its deployment in the carrier market. However, the R & D of Hsinchu Department will be operational before ps about 1 year. If Western Digital is implementing this Department, it is also so if occupy the DSS of Hitachi GST, recently purchased, and the DSS appear on the market early 2012.

Western Digital explains that the selling prices of SSDS is currently the main brake on mass-market development, well that more and more products allow SSD to enter the market (such as the arrival of the ultrabooks). It is therefore too early to see Western Digital offer SSD to the grand public, but things continue to be put in place in this sense. Reminder, Western Digital has since mid-2009 of the DSS to professionals.

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Hard drives: Western Digital production resumes

Small update on the situation of Western Digital in Thailand, where the manufacturer has been able to reopen one of its production units.

We follow closely the situation in Thailand, where Western Digital - disk hard - a world leader in saw its plants be put out of action produce following terrible floods. Since then, everyone is his commentary on the shortage begins to strike and could continue for a good part of the year 2012. Which has the impact visible to blow up the prices of the drives, as we see there is little in analyzing price at online stores.

In this context, any encouraging news is good to take. In this case, it is Western Digital announced have been able to boost its production on one of its sites where floods receded, at Bang Pa - In. A site where a single plant to resumed, while she was drowned under 2 metres of water since October 15. Rule pumping and a reconstruction of the power supply helped revive manufacturing. In the other buildings at the site, reclamation continues and the machines were transported to be analyzed and repaired.

However, Western Digital is not ready to see the end of the tunnel. Indeed, we also learn that another plant of the same site will not resume before March 2012. A plant paramount as it manufactures the sliders of the disks (the heads of reading and writing), forcing the manufacturer to find heads from other suppliers. Finally, Western Digital evaluates for the first time the harm suffered, and considers that the flood will cost him between 225 and 275 million dollars on the only fourth quarter 2011.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (13) : 3dfx, Western Digital, Matrox

Although nothing interesting, if motherboards are legions at CeBIT, new are rare. Single point interesting: Intel shows a Pentium 4 2 GHz processor on its stand. And not a Northwood 130 nm but a "simple" Willamette 180 nm.In 2011, the race for the frequency has resumed, with processors approaching (again) the 4 GHz, while this limit was close in 2005 with a Pentium 4.

3dfx, it's really over. NVIDIA bought part of the assets, the rest disappears. Players are sad. During this time, Matrox Announces a new card: not a Parhelia 2, a Millennium G450... in PCI. The followers of the multiscreen love.

In 2011, the only thing which remains of 3dfx is the SLI name, reused by NVIDIA. And of course some players the time of the Glide Nostalgeek. And for those who like to install several screens, there are powerful cards to manage six screens. The PCI was replaced by PCI-Express x 1 for appoints graphics cards.Western Digital has announced a range of hard drives 7 200 rpm with a record density: 27 GB per platter. It is therefore possible to offer fast hard drives with a capacity of 80 GB, which is huge. After Sony, it is the turn of TDK to propose a technology increasing the capacity of the CD - R: ML discs can store 2 GB on a media 12 cm in diameter.

In 2011, high range hard drives are 3 To and announced at CeBIT 2011 trays are 1 To. In optical discs, DVD (4.7 then 8.5 GB) then the Blu - ray disc (25 and 50 GB) have replaced the CD and this type of media tends to disappear for the benefit of the flash memory or external hard drives.

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Western Digital My Book Essential 3 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Put your digital life on the sleek, high capacity My Book Essential external hard drive. With WD quality and USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connectivity, this drive is designed for today with tomorrow in mind. Visual backup software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. Lightweight and easy to carry, this drive is ideal for fast storage to go.

Price: $249.99

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