New WD Black Hard Drives Offer Uncompromising Storage Performance for Enthusiasts, Gamers IRVINE, Calif. – Nov. 20, 2012 – WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and a world leader in hard ...

The 6TB version of the WD Black hard drive is up to 29% faster than the 4TB model in terms of maximum throughput and 10% faster on the PCMark Vantage benchmark, according to the company. The 3.5in, ...

Western Digital announces the availability of the 4TB WD Black, a hard drive that spins at 7,200rpm and costs $340. CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with ...

If we look back over the last few years, we have seen quite a few HDD technologies emerge. From HGST, we have Helium drives on the horizon; Seagate is working very hard on SMR and WD with HAMR. Apart ...

When running our single large file on-disk file copy test the WD Black 4TB impressed us with a transfer speed of 90.2MB/s, making it 4% faster than the WD Red 3TB and 8% faster than the WD RE 1TB.

Solid state drives continue to be all the rage, due to their durability, silence, and high performance versus traditional hard drives, with spinning magnetic media. And while SSD prices have dropped ...

No matter how much storage your desktop has, more is always better (at least until your motherboard runs out of SATA III ports and M.2 slots). Today, Newegg is selling a 2TB WD Black 3.5-inch internal ...

WD releases a first-of-its-kind standard laptop internal storage drive that comes with a 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD on the inside. Here's CNET's full review of it. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor ...

As I begin writing this review, I find myself sitting here in awe that it’s a 4TB hard drive we’re dealing with. I had the same reaction when the first 1TB model hit the market, and likewise, the ...

When running the AS SSD Benchmark's sequential read test we find that the WD Black 4TB and Red 3TB drives offer the same performance, each sustaining 146MB/s. This made the WD Black 4TB roughly 25% ...

The price disparity between solid state and hard disk drives often forces mobile and small form factor users into the unenviable position of choosing performance over capacity. Provided they’ve got ...