Tag Archives: Western Digital

Western Digital sampling 5mm, 2.5-inch, 500Gbyte hybrid HDD with NAND Flash

Posted on September 11, 2012 by sleibson2

Western Digital just started shipping 7mm, 2.5-inch HDDs earlier this year and has now announced that it is sampling a 5mm, 2.5-inch, 500Gbyte hybrid HDD with integrated NAND Flash caching. The drive will be showcased during Western Digital’s Investor Day … Continue reading →

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The top 21 things you probably didn’t know about Flash memory, from the Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 30, 2012 by sleibson2

Last week’s Flash Memory Summit ended with a session titled “The top 10 things you need to know about Flash memory today. Richard Goering summarized the panel in his blog titled “Flash Memory Panelists Challenge Conventional Thinking About NAND and … Continue reading →

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Seen on the street: WD needs SSD Engineers

Posted on August 18, 2012 by sleibson2

Drinking coffee with my friend Ira Feldman on Friday at the Starbucks behind Cadence, this advertising truck pulled up and parked for a while. Must be some sort of sign about the growing popularity of SSDs. I wonder how many … Continue reading →

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Three Golliaths and a host of Davids meeting up on the storage battlefield. Who wins?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by sleibson2

If you want to read a short, interesting overview of the combined HDD/SSD storage battlefield, look no further than a new article on The Register’s Web site. The article, titled “Will the titans of storage decide to flash their bits?” … Continue reading →

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Second Speedy SAS SSD Shows at STA (SCSI Trade Association). Tomorrow

Posted on May 8, 2012 by sleibson2

Seagate has become the second company to announce that it will be showing its Pulsar.2 12Gbps SATA SSD at tomorrow’s SCSI Trade Association meeting in Santa Clara, California. The first was Western Digital. (See “WD’s HGST to demo 12Gbps SAS … Continue reading →

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WD’s HGST to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD at SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase next week in California

Posted on May 2, 2012 by sleibson2

HGST, the Western Digital subsidiary formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has announced a new 12Gbps SAS SSD and will be demonstrating it at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase next week on May 9 at the Hyatt Hotel … Continue reading →

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Will this be a good year for SSDs? Take the poll!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by sleibson2

Earlier in the week, Western Digital’s CEO John Coyne was quoted in the SSD Review as saying that he did not believe that SSDs would play a large role in Ultrabooks. Specifically, he reportedly said: “I expect ultrabooks to have … Continue reading →

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