Long gone are the days of measuring memory card capacities in megabytes, and perhaps gigabytes aren't long for this world either. Not long after Wise introduced the world's biggest and fastest CFexpress Type B cards, including a 4TB one, Western Digital debuted SanDisk 2TB and 4TB SD cards. [Read More]
An Austria-based data recovery expert asserts that the issues that currently plague SanDisk portable SSD products are caused by "construction weakness," inclusive of the solder material used and improperly sized components. [Read More]
Major United States chipmaker Western Digital (WD) is finalizing plans to "spin off its semiconductor memory business" and merge with Japanese company Kioxia Holdings Corporation. [Read More]
It has been a tough year at Western Digital Corporation's San Jose, California headquarters. The well-known storage company, which also operates the SanDisk brand, has been mired by one issue after another.
Western Digital is still reeling from two different major exploits that were used to remotely wipe the hard drives of its My Book Live products, but the headache has not ended. Several other Western Digital NAS drives running its OS 3 also have a vulnerability that the company won’t fix. A new report published by […]
Western Digital is showing off the world’s highest capacity, portable SSD at CES 2020. It’s the SanDisk 8TB SSD, and it’s small enough to be easily slipped into your pocket. The prototype drive features a SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps interface that can quickly transfer a huge trove of photos and other files to and from the […]
Western Digital today unveiled its first portable SSD. The My Passport SSD features blazing-fast data transfer speeds in a pint-sized drive that photographers can easily slip into a small camera bag.
Western Digital drives in a Synology NAS will apparently flash a warning to users to replace them after they sense they have been powered on for three years, even if nothing is actually wrong with the drives. [Read More]
Earlier this week, Western Digital confirmed that its network security was breached and some data was obtained. In response, the company shut down some of its systems.
SanDisk has announced the Pro-G40 SSD, a super-fast external storage device that can connect to computers using either USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 through its single port. [Read More]
The Right to Repair movement has been the subject of vigorous grassroots advocacy work over the last several years and may finally see a major breakthrough as President Joe Biden is expected to ask the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to draft new regulations to help empower consumers. Bloomberg reports that President Biden is days away […]
According to a new report, hackers have exploited a 0-day bug, not the one discovered in 2018, to mass-wipe WD My Book Live Devices. It appears as though Western Digital intentionally removed lines of code that would have prevented it.
Western Digital has unveiled new “next-generation technology” that promises to bring hard disk drive capacity to a whopping 40TB by 2025. That’s a leap of about 300% in a span of around 7 years.
If you’d like to back up your photos and collaborate on them locally, then creating a private cloud with a network attached storage (NAS) server is one way to go. One option on the market these days is Western Digital’s My Cloud Pro Series line. We reviewed the WD My Cloud Pro Series PR2100 to […]
SanDisk has denied that hardware issues are to blame for the recent widespread issues in its portable SSD lines.
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A California customer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Western Digital, the parent company of SanDisk, alleging the company misrepresented the capabilities of its portable SSD products which have been widely reported to be failing en masse. [Read More]
Western Digital has confirmed that its network security was breached and some data was obtained. The company shut down access to some of its systems in an attempt to block the attack, though how successful that action was remains to be seen. [Read More]
According to a new report, hackers have exploited a 0-day bug, not the one discovered in 2018, to mass-wipe WD My Book Live Devices. It appears as though Western Digital intentionally removed lines of code that would have prevented it.
If you’re a content creator in need of professional-grade storage drives, Western Digital’s newly unveiled SanDisk Professional line of premium storage solutions is just for you. Professional photographers and creatives across a wide range of industries are always working with data that’s in a perpetual state of motion.
Western Digital has announced the new SanDisk Extreme 400GB UHS-I microSD, the world’s fastest-ever UHS-I microSD card. Western Digital, which acquired SanDisk for $19 billion in 2016, says that it’s “transforming the mobile experience with new industry-leading mobile solutions designed to enable consumers to better capture, share and enjoy rich content on their devices. Memory […]