Western Digital

Western Digital confirms digital burglary, calls the cops

Thinks info from internal systems 'obtained' by miscreant, unsure of nature or scope data

Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 10

Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses

Messrs Elliott strike again

Storage08 Jun 2022 | 9

Elliott Management to WDC board: Spin out or sell flash biz

Updated HDD and NAND memory maker has 'underperformed by any objective measure'

Storage03 May 2022 | 9

Western Digital tells EdgeRover users to patch app again

Critical vulnerability may have allowed an attacker to escalate local privileges

Security21 Mar 2022 | 3

New release of SweRVolf RISC-V SoC project aims for lower barrier to entry

FOSSi Foundation's Olof Kindgren on the origins, future, and success of the RISC-V ISA

On-Prem15 Sep 2021 | 1

Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow

New flash-and-platter architecture offers 'breakthrough in storage that works differently,' firm claims

Storage01 Sep 2021 | 37

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention

Storage27 Aug 2021 | 52

Pull your Western Digital My Book Live NAS off the internet now if you value your files

Storage giant fingers 'critical' bug allowing remote factory resets that wipe contents

Security25 Jun 2021 | 17

Work-from-home shift trickles down to Western Digital as cloud builders stuff storage in bit barns to meet demand

How to survive a pandemic

Storage06 Aug 2020 | 1

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint

Storage29 May 2020 | 71

Western Digital hands chief exec seat to boss of Cisco's networking and security biz

David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity'

Storage06 Mar 2020 | 4

Cheap as chips? Not for much longer, analysts reckon, after rough year for memory makers

'It's going to be amazingly OK'

On-Prem04 Feb 2020 | 10

RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...

Updated More stuff that'll get under Arm's skin

Science10 Dec 2019 | 4

Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time

Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020

Storage07 Oct 2019 | 17

Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems

IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block

Storage20 Sep 2019 | 1

WD you like to purchase an NVMe-oF startup? Kazan! Western Dig just did

Storage types pretty excited about getting at arrays over Ethernet via NVMe-oF

Storage11 Sep 2019 |

MAMR Mia! Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave-energy hard drives out soon

No volume ships until mid-2020, though

Storage04 Sep 2019 | 64

Japan and Greece collide as Toshiba's storage biz spinoff reborn as Kioxia

Logowatch Kioku (memory) + axia (value) = $$$

Bootnotes18 Jul 2019 | 5

One teeensy little 13-minute power cut, and WD you look at the size of that chip supply cut!

Western Digital 'fesses up to taking 6 exabyte hit, Toshiba still mum

Storage28 Jun 2019 | 38

Arrays in a mangler, need new storage bed: Huawei and the US tech block

Analysis A tired Ren Zhengfei'll seek read-and-write heads

Storage20 Jun 2019 | 13

Western Digital invites frenemies to help hash out storage standards of the future-ture-ture-ture

Call for industry giants to get zoned in on SMR, ZNS drives

Storage12 Jun 2019 | 3

Oh my Tosh, WD: Storage firms etch for a stretch – 15 more years of fab flash hookup

Storage roundup Plus: Fujitsu and Veeam hook up, cloudy IBM upgrade, Iguazio on Azure, and more

Storage21 May 2019 |

WD, Seagate romp over Q3 finishing with glorious sales and profit

Oh no, sorry that was another quarter in a different year - top and bottom lines wobble amid corp procurement slowdown

Storage01 May 2019 | 2

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored

Wait, what do you mean 'helium disk drives aren't interesting'?

Storage12 Apr 2019 | 142

WD spins off 300+ jobs in the US

Revenue and profitability pain gets cost-saving beancounters to cut jobs

Storage15 Mar 2019 | 3

It's a hard drive ahead: Seagate hits the density problem with HAMR, WD infects MAMR with shingles

Storage firms' disk drive developments diverge

Storage07 Mar 2019 | 43

Western Digital sees storage sun rise in NVMe land... and slowly set on SATA, SAS SSDs

It's a time of long goodbyes

Storage27 Feb 2019 | 5

Nearline disk drive demand dip dropkicks Seagate: How deep is the trough, how deep is the trough?

I really neeeeed to learn. 'Cos buyers aren't draining high-cap drive pools

Storage05 Feb 2019 | 7

SK Hynix feels mosquito bite in revenues from flat flash and DRAM demand

Moving to high-density DRAM and delaying 96-layer flash

On-Prem25 Jan 2019 | 2

Weak flash demand and disk sales leave Western Digital scrabbling to claw back $800m a year

Revenue drops 20% as market slackens, with worse to come

Storage25 Jan 2019 | 6

Bain of Toshiba's existence: Dark night for flash fabber TMC if it's a faceoff with Western Dig

And an IPO could mean just that...

Storage24 Jan 2019 | 1

By gum(stick): Samsung speeds up 970 EVO Plus drive

Cut-price unit takes WD's heatsink-toting SSD to the cleaners too

Storage24 Jan 2019 | 24

Western Digital deploys heatsink on remodelled M.2 to tempt gamers

Bringing a 'tangible, next-level competitive boost' apparently...

Storage21 Jan 2019 | 28

WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital

NAND revenues and disk drive topline downbound until mid-year - Wells Fargo

Storage18 Jan 2019 | 2

Talk about beating heads against brick walls... Hard disk drive unit shipments slowly spinning down

This is the age of the SSD

Storage10 Jan 2019 | 36

Double denim? Ha! Now you can go triple denim with Seagate's hipster portable drive range

Western Digital's CES lineup a tad more composed

Storage08 Jan 2019 | 3

He, He, more gassy whoppers: Toshiba spreads 12TB, 14TB drives across gaming and NAS disks

Extremely, er, unspecified helium-filled gaming disk performance

Storage06 Dec 2018 | 8

Early to embed and early to rise? Western Digital drops veil on SweRVy RISC-V based designs

First look at drive controller core after firm moves to open chip spec

Storage04 Dec 2018 | 19

Western Digital bought Upthere, and just sent its software out there

Storage company's core project joins the GitHub undead

Storage22 Nov 2018 | 4

Western Digital: And when I pull the covers off, behold as NAND becomes virtual DRAM

Faces off with Intel's Optane, says product bod

Storage12 Nov 2018 | 19

Number-three disk drive maker Toshiba isn't shy about shipping 23.4m spinners in 3Q18

Will it increase capacity in a tuned-in MAMR?

Storage07 Nov 2018 |

Flash price-drop pops Western Digital's wallet: Surprise revenue fall with worse to come

Firm to curb wafer output starting April '19

Storage26 Oct 2018 | 15

Shingled-minded Western Digital insists its latest hard drive sets disk capacity record

15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 targets hyperscale crowd

Storage25 Oct 2018 | 20

Seagate and Western Digital neck-and-neck at the nearline drive-in

Seagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash

Storage23 Oct 2018 | 2

WD shoots out 96-layer embedded flash chips

What do you get for 50 per cent more layers? Not a lot

Storage18 Oct 2018 | 9

Compose yourselves: Western Digital chucks some bucks at Kaminario

Membership of WD's OpenFlex club has its perks

Storage10 Oct 2018 | 1

'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud

Western Digital NAS machines vulnerable to hijacking via HTTP cookies

Security18 Sep 2018 | 17

Seagate passes gassy 14TB whopper: He He He, one for each of you

Misses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance

Storage10 Sep 2018 | 46

Array with it: Western Digital's finance arm slings a few million at Excelero

Tech collab could see Excelero support WD’s OpenFlex and Kingfish

Storage16 Aug 2018 |

Western Digital develops a new soft spot for the hyper-converged world – a software spot, that is

Touts storage boxes, dreams of code-composable infrastructure

On-Prem08 Aug 2018 | 3

Western Digital wonders why enterprise isn't keen on its solid-state drives

We must sell more!

Storage27 Jul 2018 | 21

If you were a firm-swallowing storage giant, how WD you digest them all?

Analysis Branding, real estate need sorting out

Storage27 Jul 2018 | 2

Fancy a little TLC? WD woos data centre crowd with dual-port SAS write fiend

Big jump in write speed

Storage26 Jul 2018 | 1

Toshiba and WD indulge in mutual 96-layer flashing: Two partners, two products

Some chips have more bits than others, though

Storage23 Jul 2018 | 3

Western Digital formats hard disk drive factory as demand spins down

Malaysia plant faces axe in 2019 while biz powers up more flash drive assembly lines

Storage17 Jul 2018 | 29

Western Digital pitches fleet of hybrid arrays to markets served by its array-builder customers

+Comment OK, that's an interesting strategy

Storage29 Jun 2018 | 1