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WD’s First USB 3.0 Hard Drive Is Incredibly Fast, And You Want One

Thank God for USB 3.0. I was getting really tired of staring at the progress bar for seconds (seconds!) while my shit transfers. WD just announced their first MyBook external drive with 3.0, and it looks great.

December 6, 2009
Uncategorized

WDTV Live Firmware Update Bricking Units?

Western Digital support forums are filled with comments on the latest WDTV Live firmware update, few of them good. Many users are reporting that firmwares from 1.0.11 up are giving them trouble, at least, and in many cases outright bricking their hardware. If you’ve got one, hold off on updating for a while. Check out the source links for more info. [WD Community, WDTVHD.com. Thanks William.]

December 1, 2009
Entertainment

Asus O!Play Review: Best-Priced HD Video Player Is The New Champ

Battlemodos give you a clear sense of what’s good and bad in a gadget category, but there’s no way to include everything. Consider the $US99 Asus O!Play the new champ of HD video players—better late than never.

November 2, 2009
Entertainment

That WD TV Live HD Media Payer Doesn’t Play Pandora

Gizmodo AU

So it turns out that the WD Media streamer thing we told you about last week doesn’t stream Pandora in Australia. While I’m not surprised, I’m still a little disappointed…

October 30, 2009
Entertainment

The WD TV Live HD Media Player Apparently Plays Pandora In AU

Gizmodo AU

The thing that struck me about the press release for the WD TV Live HD Media Player wasn’t the ability to stream your HD content over your network to your TV (my PS3 does that for me), but more the fact that it apparently allows you to stream Pandora internet radio here in Australia.

October 11, 2009

Quick Test: Seagate’s 1TB Portable FreeAgent Go

The season of the 1TB bus-powered USB drive is upon us. WD was first; now Seagate is shipping the FreeAgent Go, a chunky SOB — three platters worth of storage powered and connected by one skinny cable.

October 6, 2009

WD Puts E-Labels On My Book Elite/Studio, Passport Elite Gets Dock

Hard drives have become so generic and commoditised, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD’s My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock.

July 27, 2009

WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First 1 Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever

I seriously need the new WD Scorpio 1 terabyte drive. I want to be able to tote around all my desktop data, without any external drives hanging around, and $US250 seems like a little price to pay for that.

June 27, 2009

My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review

The Gadget: My Book World Edition II, a 4TB Raid NAS—a small networked hard drive with a ton of storage.

June 24, 2009

WD’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB Of RAID Network Storage

WD’s new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data.

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