A California customer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Western Digital, the parent company of SanDisk, alleging the company misrepresented the capabilities of its portable SSD products which have been widely reported to be failing en masse.
Due in large part to its abysmal response -- or rather, complete lack thereof -- to widespread reports of the failure of its portable SSD products, the SanDisk brand name is now mud.
It has been a tough year at Western Digital Corporation's San Jose, California headquarters. The well-known storage company, which also operates the SanDisk brand, has been mired by one issue after another. Adding to it, now people are losing their data, the cardinal sin of storage devices.
Western Digital drives in a Synology NAS will apparently flash a warning to users to replace them after they sense they have been powered on for three years, even if nothing is actually wrong with the drives.
Earlier this week, Western Digital confirmed that its network security was breached and some data was obtained. In response, the company shut down some of its systems. Five days later and the network is still down.
Western Digital has confirmed that its network security was breached and some data was obtained. The company shut down access to some of its systems in an attempt to block the attack, though how successful that action was remains to be seen.
SanDisk has announced the Pro-G40 SSD, a super-fast external storage device that can connect to computers using either USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 through its single port.
From photographers to graphic designers to software developers, people are increasingly dependent on their computers to manage their workflow, and any extra lag or load times can lead to increased stress and decreased productivity. Juggling many workload demands, today’s creative professionals need technology that empowers their creativity.
Western Digital (WD) has announced that following a series of vulnerabilities and security risks earlier this year, the company will drop support for any device not on its most recent operating system, only allowing them to receive local access.
Western Digital is still reeling from two different major exploits that were used to remotely wipe the hard drives of its My Book Live products, but the headache has not ended. Several other Western Digital NAS drives running its OS 3 also have a vulnerability that the company won't fix.
According to a new report, hackers have exploited a 0-day bug, not the one discovered in 2018, to mass-wipe WD My Book Live Devices. It appears as though Western Digital intentionally removed lines of code that would have prevented it.
Western Digital, most well known for making many types of popular hard drives including the My Book line external devices, is advising users to disconnect any My Book Live storage devices from the internet as soon as possible and until further notice to prevent files from being deleted.
Western Digital has unveiled new "next-generation technology" that promises to bring hard disk drive capacity to a whopping 40TB by 2025. That's a leap of about 300% in a span of around 7 years.
Western Digital today unveiled its first portable SSD. The My Passport SSD features blazing-fast data transfer speeds in a pint-sized drive that photographers can easily slip into a small camera bag.
If you'd like to back up your photos and collaborate on them locally, then creating a private cloud with a network attached storage (NAS) server is one way to go. One option on the market these days is Western Digital's My Cloud Pro Series line. We reviewed the WD My Cloud Pro Series PR2100 to see what it's like to set it up in your photo studio.
For photographers, the Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro is a hard drive that's actually worth getting excited over. With built-in WiFi, an SD slot, and a USB connection so you can hook up any card reader, it's a powerful on-the-go backup solution for photographers shooting on-location.
If you need some extra storage or you've been waiting for a good quality portable hard drive at a great price, we've found a deal you should definitely jump on. The Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra is selling at an all-time low price of $80 right now on eBay.
It's not often a portable hard drive catches our eye, but the newest offering from Western Digital feels like it was built specifically for photographers. Completely wireless, the drive's features include an SD card slot so you can unload photos on-location without ever having to get an intermediary device involved.