Western Digital has begun shipping its first consumer-oriented solid state drive series, the SiliconEdge Blue. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes, these highly rugged, lightning-fast drives are equipped with MLC NAND flash memory chips, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF of 1.4 million hours and support both Windows 7 TRIM and NCQ (Native Command Queuing) command features. In terms of performance, they provide read and write speeds of up to 250MB/s and 170MB/s, respectively. The 64GB, 128GB and 256GB are priced at $279, $529 and $999, respectively. [WD]
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Western Digital’s latest My Passport Studio hard drives feature a customizable e-ink display. Inspired by the Amazon Kindle, the display screen keeps the data on display even when the power supply is cut off. FYI, each HDDs is pre-formatted for Macs only, but you can easily run them on a PC after a reformat. You will also need to re-install the WD e-ink software to customize the outside display. The 320GB model is priced at $150, while the 640GB model retails for $200. [Western Digital]
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Here is good news for all Mac users around the globe. Western Digital has recently unveiled a new My Passport Studio portable hard disk drive for Mac computers that provides a fast USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 interfaces. The device is also compatible with Apple TimeMachine software. The Western Digital My Passport Studio also features automatic and continuous backup with WD SmartWare software alongside 256-bit hardware-based encryption. The My Passport Studio drives will come in 320GB, 500GB and 640GB capacities, retailing from $149.99 to $199.99. Each purchase comes with a 3-year limited warranty. [Press Release]
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Western Digital stepped into the digital home entertainment with WD TV. WD TV was a solid built device that allowed users to watch hi-definition movies, pictures or even listen to music right on their television set. And needless to say, it pleased the crowd even though it lacked one of the most important features used today – connectivity. Western Digital has now worked on the drawback and is back with the latest incarnation known as WD TV Live.
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Western Digital’s Indian unit has launched WD TV Live HD Media Player with streaming capability and full HD resolution support. The WD TV series is similar to Amkette’s recently unveiled Flash TV but think it as far more superior. Watching multimedia content on the new WD TV Live is easy. Attach a USB HDD or a flash drive loaded with the content or stream it from your computer via the integrated Ethernet or Wi-Fi port. Users can also stream content from online sites like YouTube, Flickr and Pandora.
The wide variety of format support includes:
Video – AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9
Photo – JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Audio – MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
The WD TV Live Media Player sells for Rs. 10,500 and comes with a 1-year warranty.
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