Drawing on its expertise as a leading supplier to major consumer electronics and surveillance manufacturers worldwide, Western Digital Corp. has designed its new GreenPower (GP) version of its WD AV hard drives with technologies that provide cooler and quieter operation and lower power consumption. WD's GreenPower family of hard drives for desktop, enterprise and audio video applications reduces power consumption by as much as 40 percent over standard drives in their respective classes. The new WD AV-GP family of drives offers capacities of 500 gigabytes (GB), 750 GB and one terabyte (TB), and is perfect for audio video applications such as DVRs (digital video recorders), as well as surveillance video recording.

A member at Reg Hardware has reported that Western Digital's 1TB My Book World Edition remote-access hard drive does not share media files over network connections. Which is, the entire point behind the World Edition lineup of hard disk drives.

"Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access."

Western Digital's list of banned file types encompasses over 35 extensions. This includes AAC, MP3, AVI, DivX, WMV, and Quicktime files. And why not - Windows TMP files too.

Just in time to make a perfect holiday gift, WD today announced that its new 320 GB capacity WD Passport Portable Drives are available now at select retailers and this week at WD's online store. This sharp increase in storage capacity puts almost a third of a terabyte of digital storage in the palm of your hand.

Western Digital today announced an addition to its popular and environmentally friendly GreenPower family of WD desktop hard drive products with its WD Caviar GP 500GB model. Consuming only 3.3 watts in idle mode and 6 watts during seek mode, WD Caviar GP 500GB 3.5-inch SATA hard drives support quieter, cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices, with power usage 30 percent lower than any other announced 500GB hard drive in the industry.

Western Digital Corp. today announced its new environmentally friendly, energy-conscious GreenPower family of WD enterprise hard drive products. The new WD RE2 GreenPower (GP) family offers capacities of 500 gigabytes (GB), 750 GB and one terabyte (TB), and provides data-hungry organizations with a money-saving solution to combat the challenges faced in the enterprise IT sector, such as, total available drive slots, maximum capacity, and available power and budget. Addressing a growing high-capacity enterprise market, WD RE2 drives are reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failure) in high duty cycle environments.

Western Digital Corp. today announced it is now shipping its new WD Scorpio 320 GB 2.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for notebook computers and portable storage devices.

WD uses advanced head and media technology to achieve the world's highest capacity 2.5-inch, slim, 9.5mm form-factor hard drive and includes proprietary features that make the drive extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures. The WD Scorpio 320 GB hard drives deliver high performance with 3 Gb/s transfer rate and are destined for use in OEM notebook platforms that offer the highest storage capacities to the worldwide market.

WD today announced that the company is a proud sponsor of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (www.nationalbreastcancer.org) with the introduction of its new pink WD Passport Portable Drives. Available now in the U.S. from WD's online store (www.shopwd.com) and expected next month at Best Buy stores, the new pink-colored WD Passport Portable Drive features a whopping one-quarter terabyte capacity. To aid in the fight against breast cancer, WD is making a donation to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NCBF).

Western Digital today announced that its My DVR Expander external hard drives are verified compatible with TiVo HD and TiVo Series3 DVRs (digital video recorders). Available now at Best Buy retail stores and online at TiVo.com/store, the My DVR Expander external hard drive is capable of storing up to 300 hours of digital standard-definition (SD) or up to 60 hours of high-definition (HD) television programming based on 500 GB of hard drive storage. Users can instantly expand their recording capacity by simply attaching the My DVR Expander drive to their TiVo HD and TiVo Series3 HD DVRs. The My DVR Expander external hard drive is designed for TiVo subscribers who want even more room to store not only broadcast content, but also broadband content that TiVo makes available through TiVoCast partners, including movie and TV downloads via Amazon Unbox on TiVo.

Western Digital Corp. today announced that it has achieved 520 Gb/in2 areal density - the hard drive industry's highest demonstrated density to date using continuous media. The company revealed the milestone this week at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo after an earlier demonstration in California. Following WD's growing investments in technology the past five years, the company achieved 520 Gb/in2 using its own perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)/tunneling magneto-resistive (TuMR) head technology.

WD today introduced its My Book Studio Edition external hard drives designed for creative users and HFS+ formatted for Mac computers (can easily be reformatted for Windows 2000/XP/Vista). Equipped with high-performance interfaces (USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800 and eSATA) and offered in capacities from 320GB to 1TB (terabyte), the new My Book Studio Edition external hard drive features: automatic, continuous backup; synchronization and encryption of data; capacity gauge that shows how much space is available; drive activity light; 5 year limited warranty; environmentally-friendly power saving design; SmartPower feature; designed without a fan to run quietly; and, new smaller My Book collectible design with an elegant silver metallic finish that perfectly complements other Mac products. The My Book Studio Edition with capacities ranging from 320GB to 1TB are available now starting from $199.99 USD to $399.99 USD depending upon capacity.

WD today introduced its smaller, sleeker My Book external storage solutions: My Book Home Edition, My Book Office Edition and My Book Essential Edition. Ranging from 320GB to 1TB, the new My Book models were designed with specific users in mind. Home users will appreciate the automatic and continuous backup of their precious memories on the My Book Home Edition. Office users will rely on the remote access and sharing capabilities of the My Book Office Edition. My Book Essential Edition meets the needs of users who seek simple, instant storage.

LAKE FOREST, Calif., July 24 -- Expanding its lineup of consumer-friendly, easy-to-use external hard drives, Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced that all models of its My Book(TM) dual-drive storage appliances are now available in capacities up to 2 TB (terabyte). From remote access and sharing anywhere in the world to simple add-on storage, backup and mirroring, the My Book dual-drive storage systems meet a variety of needs generated by today's increasing volume of digital content. The new 2 TB capacity is now available on WD's My Book World Edition(TM) II, My Book Pro Edition(TM) II, My Book Premium Edition(TM) II models. "The explosive growth in devices that create rich multimedia content -- from digital cameras to music players to digital video camcorders -- continues to drive consumers' insatiable demand for more storage capacity. The popular My Book family of external drives delivers peace of mind in a simple solution that can provide remote access, sharing, protection and storing of precious files," said Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD's Branded Products and Consumer Electronics businesses.

LAKE FOREST, Calif., July 23 -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced a new environmentally friendly GreenPower(TM) family of WD(R) desktop, enterprise, CE and external hard drive products. The new GreenPower (GP) family will ship in capacities from 320 gigabytes (GB) to one terabyte (TB), and will save up to 40% in hard drive power consumption, or as much as $10 per drive per year. Based on extensive customer input toward supporting ENERGY STAR 4.0 compliance and incorporating the latest in engineering technology, WD has delivered the first 3.5-inch hard drive platform designed with power savings as the primary attribute.

Addressing the needs for the growing enterprise market for high-capacity, highly-reliable storage, Western Digital Corp. today announced it will be shipping its WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750GB hard drive this month. With 3.0Gb/s data transfer rate, WD RE2 hard drives feature Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for high system performance.

Western Digital starts shipping today the high-capacity 750GB Serial ATA II WD Caviar SE16 desktop-class hard drives. Ideal for data-intensive applications, high-performance computing and multimedia systems, the WD Caviar SE16 750GB drives deliver high performance with 3Gb/s transfer rate, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology, 16MB cache and Native Command Queuing (NCQ). WD Caviar SE16 750GB (model WD7500AAKS) hard drives may be ordered on the company's online store and through select distributors and resellers. Manufacturer's Suggest Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD Caviar SE16 750GB is $249 USD. More information about WD Caviar desktop drives may be found on the company's Web site here.

Western Digital Corp., today announced it is now shipping its 250 GB WD Scorpio 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The drives employ perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve the highest capacity available in a small form factor drive and have WD proprietary features that make the drive quiet, use less power and run at cool operating temperatures.

Western Digital Corp. today announced a new family of hard drives for audio and video recording products, one of today's fastest growing digital storage markets. Drawing on its expertise as a leading supplier to major consumer electronics and surveillance manufacturers worldwide, WD has designed its new 3.5-inch WD AV hard drives with technologies that provide the increased reliability, cooler and quieter operation and low power consumption required for these demanding environments. The WD AV drives in capacities ranging from 80 GB to 500 GB are available through the company's distribution network.

Expanding its lineup of consumer-friendly, easy-to-use external hard drives that has made it the leading consumer external storage brand worldwide, Western Digital Corp. today introduced the My Book World Edition family of shared storage appliances. This new family of shared storage appliances allows consumers and home office workers to securely access their digital content, such as photos, home videos and documents, and share it with family and friends from anywhere in the world as if that content were stored local to the user. The terabyte (TB) My Book World Edition II model is equipped with a dual-drive configuration and RAID capability.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Feb. 5, 2007 - As consumers increasingly rely on digital media to secure their important documents and valuable personal content, they often fear that changes in technology may render their data inaccessible. Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), the leading consumer external storage brand worldwide, today announced that its new My Book Premium ES Edition external hard drive incorporates eSATA (external Serial ATA) and USB 2.0. eSATA is a new technology that transfers data between the external device and the computer at higher rates than ever before and USB 2.0 is today's most common method of connecting external devices to personal computers.