Western Digital has released a new 2TB 7200RPM hard drive to their Caviar Black series. The drive features 64MB of cache, a dual stage actuator, 3Gbps SATA interface and an integrated dual processor.
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The Western Digital TV Mini is a smaller version of their original WD TV, but lacks HDMI and optical outputs. It does feature component and composite output.
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The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB is a new 2.5-inch 12.5mm hard drive designed for laptop computers.
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The Western Digital SiliconDrive III is their first set of SSD drives in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch models with SATA and PATA connections.
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The Western Digital 4TB My Book Studio is an external hard drive featuring twin 2TB drives. Ports include eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. The enclosure also has a door on top to allow for easy access to the drives inside.
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The Western Digital MyBook World Edition is available in 1TB and 2TB models. It is a network based hard drive with a USB 2.0 port for additional drive expansion.
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When Leopard was released, I wanted to transition from my current backup solution which was SuperDuper to a network based external hard drive to Apple’s Time Machine. Before switching completely to Macs I had always put together my own hardware from buying parts and putting a PC together to buying external hard drive enclosures and sticking my own hard drives in them. This isn’t a bad way to do things. You definitely get more for you money. The main reason for my transition is I wanted support. If something failed I wanted to just send the entire thing in and not have to worry about it. So this is one example of that. I went with Western Digital drives because they were relatively inexpensive and they look nice next to my Macs.
