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WD_Black P50 Game Drive: convenience and speed for your gaming rig [Review]

Storage: a less discussed component to your gaming setup, but one that is nonetheless critical to your experience. With this in mind, Western Digital…

Western Digital gaming storage drives launch in SA

Western Digital has announced that its new WD_Black portfolio of gaming storage drives is launching in South Africa, with its gaming SSD arriving later…

WD SSDs are now available in South Africa

The company has taken its time, but American storage drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD) has finally launched its SSD range in South Africa. Speaking…

WD Red 6TB drives review: seemingly bottomless storage

Just a few years ago, hard drive capacities topped out at a lofty 2GB. They were about as big and bulky as their contemporaries,…

WD’s 314GB PiDrive is hilarious because World Pi Day

I love novelty gadgets. I can’t begin to explain how many random flash drives and powerbanks I’ve impulsively collected over the years, but some…

WD My Passport for Mac review: reliable external storage for OS X

A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive, right? Well, yes. In a sense that there’s an actuator, a reading system…

6TB WD Black hard drives now available in South Africa

WD, one of the world’s biggest hard drive manufacturers, has announced that its performance-orientated WD Black drives are now available in 6TB and 5TB…

Kalvin Subbadu: Watch out, there’s more to come from WD South Africa

WD (the hard drive division of Western Digital Corporation) has been a big player in the storage industry since the early 1970s. The Irvine,…

WD Green 2TB review: affordable secondary storage [updated]

Update: Since the first draft of this review was released, WD has stressed that the drives are not meant to be used in a…

WD My Passport Pro 4TB review-in-brief: speedy and stylish

The WD My Passport Pro does what it does well, but weighing up the three P’s (practicality, performance and price) it only shines through…

WD My Passport Ultra Metal Edition review: stylish, reliable storage

I’m not partial to devices that put form above function so embellishments (more often than not) don’t appeal to me. I’m not a magpie…

D-Link ShareCenter DNS-345 NAS review: enormously simple storage

It’s not often we get a high-capacity storage system in the office to review, but my do we get excited when one comes a-knockin’….

12TB massive vs 2TB portable: which is the more useful hard drive?

Dilemma: I have two hard drives for review. The enormous 12-terabyte Western Digital MyBook Duo (US$650), and Seagate’s ultra-slim 2-terabyte Backup Plus Slim (US$150)….

Western Digital’s helium-filled 10TB HD and ‘Cold Storage’ drive sneak into view

There’s a new technology war brewing, but it’s not on the console or mobile phone front. Hilariously, just two weeks after Seagate announced its…

Western Digital slides in world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive

Behold the “world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive.” At Computex this week, Western Digital (WD) has announced the shipping of the WD Blue HDD. This…

WD My Passport 2TB HD review: dirt-cheap storage

For US$139, Western Digital has given me 2TB of USB 3.0 goodness. The WD My Passport 2TB Portable External Hard Drive is good and…

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