Those speedy (and awesome) Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt drives we saw back at CES in early January are finally here! Today the company took the official wraps off their speedy drives, ensuring many people will wreak havoc on bank accounts over the coming months. At $599 and $699 for the 4 TB and 6 TB drives (RAID 0 setup), it’s clear they are, at least at first, marketing these towards the professional market. ~$700 clams is a lot to spend on a simple external...

While residents in parts of Thailand hit by the worst flooding in over fifty years are stock piling non-perishable food and clean drinking water, computer manufacturers (and maybe even you) are beginning to stockpile hard drives. The image above shows a not so dry Western Digital factory that is reportedly (and obviously) completely shut down. There are also reports other hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate are looking at significantly reduced output. Though in...

Hardware giant, Western Digital, is about to get a bit more muscle in the fight against competing hard drive manufacturer, Seagate. Today, March 7th, 2011, WD announced that they were purchasing Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for ~$4.3 billion USD. In total, $3.5 billion in cash as well as $750 million worth of shares will trade hands. According to Western Digital CEO, John Coyne, scale is the sole source behind the purchase, citing the need for more size and...

Last week we touched on some new and interesting news possibly coming from Seagate. And wouldn’t you know it, our guestimate was spot on (as was many other peoples’). The new Seagate Momentus XT was put through it’s paces by Hothardware and found to be “in between a WD Scorpio Blue and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11″ in terms of overall speed. So no, this hybrid tech won’t be a worth contender to SSD”s and users looking for the...

Speed, like drugs, hobbies, food, and smoking is addictive. With speed, the adrenaline rush that follows is the natural high for some. In the tech world, while we ourselves may not be moving hundreds of miles per hour in the dopest ride, we do have certain objects that move at high velocity — hard drives. As far as old spinners go, the general rule of thumb is that the faster the drive spins, the faster it will perform. Now, this isn’t exact as a few other...