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
WD's Purple reign continues: 12TB helium disks for vid spy tech Eight platters serving up 1.5TB each for data-belching surveillance cameras Storage20 Jun 2018 | 16
It's roundup time – like scouring the local paper for pics of your kid, but with storage firms This week among the lucky parents, GridGain, Memblaze and Western Digital. Well done Storage18 Jun 2018 | 1
Who needs NAND when rust never sleeps? Seagate dines out on nearline disk drive boom Getting fat off the NAND's just a flash in the pan... Storage02 May 2018 | 5
High-cap enterprise hard drives stream dosh into Western Digital Disks down overall and SSDs slide Storage28 Apr 2018 | 2
Non-shingled and ready to mingle: WDC catches up with 14TB disk rivals HC530 takes on Seagate's Exos X14, Tosh's MG07ACA Storage18 Apr 2018 | 5
Three storage hardware devices, a cash raise and Oracle gets blocked MicroSD cam flash cards, cheap NAS filers and costly prosumer flash drives Storage17 Apr 2018 | 7
The new Black: Western Dig doubles capacity on slimmed-down flasher Beefs-up read speeds too Storage06 Apr 2018 | 12
WD My Cloud NAS devices have hard-wired backdoor UPDATE This is serious: some of the messed-up machines can host VMs and databases Storage08 Jan 2018 | 52
Cool disk drive actuator pillar, Seagate – how about two of them? Analysis Full platter access parallelism performance-doubling... we ask around Storage04 Jan 2018 | 39
Toshiba sells memory biz for $18bn, becomes the Bain of Western Digital's existence Japanese company sells memory biz to private equity and WD flings sueballs to stop it Storage21 Sep 2017 | 2
WDC to Toshiba: We're sorry about the memory thing (see you in court) +Comment Is Daddy going to live somewhere else? On-Prem01 Sep 2017 | 1
Western Digital hauls out weighty tome with 20TB external storage Sluggish Red drives pumped with RAID to get speed up Storage23 Aug 2017 | 17
Samsung's bantam SSD makes WD's 'passport' drive look passé Is that 2TB in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Storage16 Aug 2017 | 32
No chips for you! Toshiba takes flash off the menu for WDC FAB grab confab goes bad On-Prem07 Aug 2017 | 16
Toshiba invests $1.76bn in flash fab production line, WD kinda peeved Star-crossed lovers secretly kicking each other to death Storage03 Aug 2017 | 3
Toshiba agrees to give WD 2-week heads-up about flash memory biz flog-off Court orders, stipulations and legal wrangling continues Storage31 Jul 2017 |
Flash, aaaaaah! Western Digital waggles sales in nemesis Seagate's face How's business on the other side of that $2.4bn void? Storage28 Jul 2017 | 14
Quad goals: Western Digital clambers aboard the 4bits/cell wagon The bit number explosion gets bigger still Storage25 Jul 2017 | 11
Western Digital bares fangs in $1bn Toshiba lawsuit Hey Tosh, you're so frivolous and without merit Storage29 Jun 2017 | 2
Oh my Tosh: WDC submits fresh bid for Toshiba memory biz Is this the beginning of the endgame? Storage27 Jun 2017 |
WDC wants in on Japan-backed consortium to buy Toshiba's chip biz Legal headache still hangs over foundry joint venture agreement Storage21 Jun 2017 | 2
Toshiba chip biz auction: Picks Japan-Bain fund bid WDC: Hang on ... WHAAAA.... Storage21 Jun 2017 | 1
WDC fires another shot at Toshiba in flash foundry spat, whispers: Pick me, Tosh! Analysis Confused? Let us explain the tale of love and hate Storage15 Jun 2017 | 2
Toshiba bowls out small but nippy enterprise spinner Power-sipping 900GB, 15,000rpm disk drive Storage14 Jun 2017 | 13
Toshiba memory unit drama alert: SK Hynix chips into Japanese consortium bid WDC could be out on its arse Storage14 Jun 2017 | 2
Toshiba Twist holds out bowl, WDC sweetens flash plant deal to $18bn Eat your gruel and we won't go to international arbitration court Storage12 Jun 2017 |
Toshiba asset-swap shock: Western Digital is not impressed Saucy Japanese chip-fryer tries to swallow its JV stake Storage01 Jun 2017 | 7
WDC may form carrion consortium to snap up Toshiba's flash memory biz Vultures continue circling not-quite-corpse Storage30 May 2017 | 1
WDC flashes the cash in in Tosh Memory biz bid: 2 treeellion yen +Comment Partners with state-backed Japanese funds Storage24 May 2017 |
Ding-ding-ding. Round 2 of Toshiba Memory biz bid fight. Where the heck is WDC? +Comment 4 fighters in the ring... but Western Dig could still jump in On-Prem22 May 2017 |
Oh my Tosh: Western Digital takes Toshiba to arbitration Updated Breach of contract bustup could block sale of Tosh's chip unit Storage15 May 2017 | 7
Toshiba and WD execs sheathe blades, start talking over memory biz It's make-up time but nobody's kissing yet Storage12 May 2017 |
Toshiba tears WDC a new one for meddling in memory business sale You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers On-Prem09 May 2017 |
Oh lordy, WD just SCHOOLED Seagate in running a disk drive biz Analysis Looks like revenues are up by almost $6bn Storage28 Apr 2017 | 14
Series of Seagate missteps as revenue generator spins down Comment Catalogue of errors by stuck-in-the-rut firm Storage27 Apr 2017 | 9
Western Digital relocates HQ, sheds jobs Orange County loses disk and flash fabber’s HQ as jobs go in transformation opportunity Storage26 Apr 2017 | 5
WD pulls cash-strapped Toshiba to one side, whispers: 'All right, pal, how much you want?' We'll bung you a tenner to tide you over, no worries, mate Storage25 Apr 2017 | 6
WDC flirting with Japan funds to bolster bid for Toshiba's memory biz Pursuing extra financial firepower to see off rivals On-Prem21 Apr 2017 | 1
Toshiba spins out new NAS disk drive with its fastest transfer rate yet Consumer workhorse has the speed and capacity to thrill ya Storage19 Apr 2017 | 9
It gets worse – now WD says Toshiba memory business sale breaches joint venture terms This is exactly the opposite of non-volatility On-Prem12 Apr 2017 | 9
Foxconn outbids WD with ¥3 TRILLION offer for Tosh memory biz Exactly what the Japanese government doesn't want On-Prem07 Apr 2017 | 5
Ten bidders sniffing around Toshiba's memory biz – reports Tenuous but critical deal to save corporation takes its first steps On-Prem30 Mar 2017 | 1
Western Digital CTO Martin Fink refused El Reg's questions, but did write this sweet essay Interview On storage-class memory and leaving HP Labs Storage09 Mar 2017 | 13
WD changes tack on its archiving array strategy but fails to tell anyone 52PB X100 ActiveScale system landed in January Storage08 Mar 2017 |
Top tip: Unplug your WD My Cloud boxen – now Unless you want your backups to be in 'Someone Else's Cloud' Security08 Mar 2017 | 15
Splitsville: Toshiba prepares to lose its memory Business being split off so stakes can be sold Storage27 Feb 2017 | 3
Tosh doubles 64-layer 3D flash chip capacity with a bit of TLC 1TB chip incoming Storage23 Feb 2017 | 18
Tosh in deeper financial doo-doo as banks crank up the pressure Push for majority stake sale in memory business On-Prem21 Feb 2017 | 10
Unlucky WD Ultrastar drives are knackered, need replacing ASAP Bad batch of disks puts data at risk Storage13 Feb 2017 | 24
Oh my Tosh: Bids up to $3.6bn for memory biz as deadline approaches Forget WD – bigger stake in joint flash fab would make more sense On-Prem09 Feb 2017 |
Tosh's new workhorse drive: Not too desktop, not too enterprise Need a 24/7 NAS disk? Mmm, maybe the MN series is just right Storage08 Feb 2017 | 4
Whomp. WD whacks down unstructured data-nomming 'Skyhawk' SSD SFF SSD goes NVMe to blow SATA interface away Storage07 Feb 2017 | 2
Toshiba's looking for a white knight, not a chip-fryer – report Part-sale of flash biz to fund nuclear power station losses Storage07 Feb 2017 |
Second time's a charm? WD tries again with 3D NAND, doubles capacity Second generation 64-layer flash chip goes to 512Gbit Storage06 Feb 2017 | 11
Flash! A-ah! He'll save everyone of us... from sluggish disk boxes Analysis Cloud provider offers DR-as-a-service using flash Storage02 Feb 2017 |
WD Corp picks teeth after SanDisk dinner, seems pleased with fuller figure +Comment Spinners boosted by SSD sales Storage26 Jan 2017 | 2
Western Digital fixes remote execution bug in My Cloud Mirror Cloudy storage kit needs firmware patch, will anybody notice? Security25 Jan 2017 |
Toshiba scrambles to start chip biz minority stake sale – reports US nuclear power plant fiasco prompts fears of writedown On-Prem20 Jan 2017 | 3
Toshiba may sell silicon biz to contain fallout of nuke plant problems Japanese company's foray into fission has been a fiscal flop that a RAM plant sale could fix On-Prem18 Jan 2017 | 3
WD slims down SSD to squeeze into little Black drive range Consumer NVMe card treated like internal PC disk transplant Storage06 Jan 2017 | 8