Western Digital

WD flashes first SanDisk drives: Blue and Green

Applies disk-drive style branding to SanDy-driven SSDs

Channel12 Oct 2016 | 10

Building iRODS to take load off scientists' back

Panasas and WD/HGST go balls out for parallel file access and object storage integration

Storage07 Oct 2016 | 4

WD: Resistance is not futile

Analysis SanDisk ReRAM becomes WD's XPoint competitor

Storage16 Aug 2016 | 7

Seagate inflates 12TB helium drives, floats them to IT bods to test

Backgrounder We dig into hard-drive maker's plans for the next three months or so

Storage03 Aug 2016 | 8

WD's 10TB Gold nugget

On-Prem02 Aug 2016 |

Get yer gnashers round 64-layer 3D NAND, beam WDC and Toshiba

Layered chippery leading to potential SSD capacity doubling

Storage27 Jul 2016 | 10

Hold on a sec. When did HDDs get SSD-style workload rate limits?

Storage Architect Disk capacity rises are working against endurance

Storage03 May 2016 | 81

If you work on Seagate's performance drives, time to find another job

+Comment Lousy three months ends multi-year stream of profit

Storage30 Apr 2016 | 25

WD’s revenue wheels have fallen off. Profits are sinking, too

SSD cashflows do little to ease the growing HDD drought

Channel29 Apr 2016 | 11

Trouble at t'spinning rust mill: Disk drive production is about to head south

+Comment Bad news – if your name is Seagate or Toshiba

Storage26 Apr 2016 | 48

SanDisk stockholders book a table, prepare for Western Digital gobble

We're today's special on the menu, say investors

Storage16 Mar 2016 | 1

WD CEO: We ain't getting Unisplendour's $3.8bn. But we'll buy SanDisk anyway

Investor: Give 'em $185m, make 'em go away

On-Prem23 Feb 2016 | 2

Toshiba and Samsung both ponder opening new 3D flash fabs

+Comment One step forwards and one step back

On-Prem08 Feb 2016 | 2

Seagate’s triple whammy: Disk numbers, costs, and flash

Didn't you notice? Peak disk came and went three years ago

Channel30 Jan 2016 | 20

WD notebook drive shipments plummet

Desktop decline and flash substitution adds to disk output gloom

Channel29 Jan 2016 | 3

SanDisk struggles to fatten itself up ahead of WD takeover

When the going gets tough, the tough get going – and the rest get bought

Channel28 Jan 2016 | 1

Western Digital, IBM enter patently cosy deal

WD slurps up 100 patents, inks cross-licensing pact

On-Prem26 Jan 2016 | 1

Seagate reorg: CEO puts ops man at the wheel

+Comment Dave Mosley to look after Global Markets and Customers

Channel05 Jan 2016 |

El Reg picked a pack of ace pic-titlers

Readers win prizes for witty captions

Site News22 Dec 2015 | 49

Toshiba denies NAND exit report with 'no decision made' comment

Forecasts huge loss, accounting scandal still looms

Storage21 Dec 2015 | 4

Oh my Tosh: SanDisk chatted to 3 other buyers before WD slurp

Comment Who are companies A, B, C and D? We have a guess...

Channel15 Dec 2015 |

Seagate wears dunce's cap in hi-cap disk ship slip

Hi-cap drives driving out small fast spindle spinners

On-Prem14 Dec 2015 | 16

WDC's shingle-free stocking filler: A 10TB helium disk drive

HDD uses its head for gen 3 Helium drive areal density boost

Storage02 Dec 2015 | 29

Western Digital begins navigating the non-volatile memory maze

Comment Stifel: All-Flash storage array market will hit $6.9bn by 2019

Storage19 Nov 2015 | 4

HGST closing SSD plant in Malaysia – report

MOFCOM decision starts to have real world ramifications

On-Prem10 Nov 2015 | 8

Western Digital in joint push with Unisplendour to sell arrays in China

Commerce is a many-splendoured thing

Storage09 Nov 2015 |

Seagate’s suffering from mighty profit droop syndrome

It's a head-scratcher alright. Time for change?

Channel30 Oct 2015 | 4

WD revenues hurt by slack PC demand

SSD growth stalls but solid company set fair

Channel29 Oct 2015 | 3

WD stirs green and blue into pot, comes out with Blue HDDs

PC drives will be blue through and through. Except the Black models

Storage28 Oct 2015 | 19

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Caption Competition Yoga woman exercised readers' minds

Site News23 Oct 2015 | 455

Seagate moves head moneyman to undefined role, promotes new CFO

Just look after ... er ... you know ... stuff

On-Prem22 Oct 2015 |

WD is gobbling SanDisk, so what's on the menu? A deflating soufflé

Quick, turn it into a lava cake or something

Storage21 Oct 2015 |

Official: WD buys SanDisk

19 billion smackeroos wing their way to SanDisk shareholders

Channel21 Oct 2015 | 6

Western Digital's hard drive encryption is useless. Totally useless

Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data

Security20 Oct 2015 | 50

SanDisk, we could make sweet flash music together, whispers WD

First Unisplendour, then the MOFCOM OK, now this … maybe

Channel20 Oct 2015 | 2

China finally says yes to WD-HGST union

+Comment But sales, brands must extend betrothal 2 more years

Storage19 Oct 2015 | 6

SanDisk 'explores' sale, WD and Micron prick up ears - report

Destination speculation sparks flash fire

On-Prem14 Oct 2015 | 1

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Caption Competition Pop a cap on this WTF snap

Site News02 Oct 2015 | 265

Western Digital sells strangely limited 15 per cent stake to China

Nothing to do with the MOFCOM hold on the HGST merger. Nope

On-Prem30 Sep 2015 | 2

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

We had fun tittering at this week's captions, but now we're looking for a devine response

Bootnotes25 Sep 2015 | 290

Brimming with VM goodness: Qnap TS-453mini 4-bay NAS

Review Diminutive do-it-all Celeron storehouse

Personal Tech18 Sep 2015 | 42

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

More ways to win with witty ... er, witticisms

Bootnotes11 Sep 2015 | 290

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Caption comp More amusement from the message menagerie

Bootnotes04 Sep 2015 | 269

Is SanDisk becoming an acquisition target as the market consolidates?

‘We don't comment on rumour or speculation’. But we do

Channel04 Sep 2015 | 1

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Caption Competition It's a web-based competition with a spider in it

Personal Tech28 Aug 2015 | 408

Get whimsical and win a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive

Caption competition No monkeying about with this one, you guys

Storage21 Aug 2015 | 390

WD unleashes bigger, badder, Black and revved, rapido Red Pro

Staple desktop and NAS drives get to 6TB level

Storage19 Aug 2015 | 5

WD storage technology exec defects to rivals Seagate

Takes advantage of California's dim view of non-competes

On-Prem18 Aug 2015 | 5

It's enough to get your back up: Eight dual-bay SOHO NAS boxes

Product Round-Up Desirable data doublers for home or office

Personal Tech02 Aug 2015 | 61

It's Friday! Had a good week? It was probably better than Seagate's

Desktop drives, down. Notebook drives, down. Martinis to take away the pain, down

Storage31 Jul 2015 | 3

Will the PC glory days ever return, WD asks as its finances slip

Disk units and revenues spin down as desktop market declines

Channel30 Jul 2015 | 23

Seagate bleeding sales as PC downturn starts to hit hard

Just $2.9bn expected for its fourth fiscal 2015 quarter

Channel13 Jul 2015 | 11

Hey WD. Are you killing off Arkeia? 'Solutions... contracts... burble'

Firm sends us impenetrable managementese, we decipher it

On-Prem13 Jul 2015 | 3

WD silently murders Arkeia backupware

Rumours of its continued existence have been exaggerated

Channel10 Jul 2015 | 7

China's STILL holding up the full WD-HGST integration. Why?

Comment There's an elephant. In this room, with us

Storage10 Jul 2015 | 24

My Passport Grip Pack blooms with new colours … and more storage

Are black and white colours? Answers on a postcard please

Storage28 May 2015 | 6