Enlarge / Western Digital’s new 26 and 22TB hard drives. (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital announced a raft of new products yesterday aimed at both regular consumer PCs and big businesses with storage-hungry servers. The headliners are two new difficult drives with huge capacities —one 26TB and one 22TB—as well as high-capacity SSDs for servers, […]
Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital has patched three critical vulnerabilities—one with a severity rating of 9.8 and another with a 9.0—that make it possible for hackers to steal data or remotely hijack storage devices running version 3 of the company’s My Cloud OS. CVE-2021-40438, as one of the vulnerabilities is tracked, allows remote attackers […]
Enlarge / This isn’t Western Digital’s first 20TB drive—but it is the first shipping drive to achieve that density without the use of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. (credit: Western Digital) At Traditional western Digital’s HDD Reimagine Event yesterday, the company introduced its newest hard drive architecture—a hybrid spinning rust/NAND flash design it calls OptiNAND. […]
Enlarge / You can’t see the part number which distinguishes the newer, slower drive from the older, faster one on the box—you need to check the PN field in the top center of the label on the drive itself. (credit: Jim Salter) Recently, major SSD vendors Crucial and Western Digital have both been caught swapping […]
Enlarge / Newer versions of Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 may perform worse than older ones. (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 budget SSD is a well-reviewed, popular NVMe device that has regularly shown up on various sites’ “best SSD” lists since it was released at the tail-end of 2019. The drive uses […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not just one vulnerability, but a second critical security bug that allowed hackers to remotely perform a factory reset without a password, an investigation shows. The vulnerability is remarkable not only because it made it trivial […]
Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug their devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light in this thread […]
Expand (charge: Seagate) Before this month, Seagate declared an 18TB entrance in its Ironwolf Expert lineup. Western Digital replied Wednesday dawn with 18TB variations of its Red Guru and Purple consumer-targeted lines. The brand newest 18TB Red Guru and Purple compels follow the business’s original 18TB CMR driveway, a Gold launched at mid-July. The two […]