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An anonymous edit by 76.126.50.95 removed a line in the hard disk section stating that WD's external drives had poor disk encryption. The note on the removal was that it was "slanderous", "impertinent", and "unreliable." I reviewed the cited source and the paper it relied on, and I found the statement to be basically accurate. I clarified it to indicate that this applied specifically to data protection, not to the quality of the drive itself, and that it applied to external drives. I also added two additional sources backing up the citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macoukji ( talk • contribs) 05:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
{{ request edit}}
Hi! I work for a communications firm that represents Western Digital, and I have some requests for updating this article. I've broken them out by section:
[[NAND flash memory]]<br/>Mobile storage<br/>[[Network-attached storage]]<br/>[[Direct-attached storage]]<br/>Personal cloud <br/>[[JBOD]] and JBOF<br/>Storage servers<br/>All-flash and hybrid arrays<br/>Data center systems<br/>[[Cloud storage]] services
67,629 (2017)
[1]
to 72,000 (2018)
[2]
| subsid =
to | brands =
. Technically, these companies no longer operate independently, so it's inaccurate to call them subsidiaries. Add <br/>G-Technology <br/>Upthere <br/>WD
to the list.
and often abbreviated as WDC
be deleted from the first sentence of the lead. Happy to make a sandbox mockup with each mention highlighted if it's helpful.
an American
computer data storage company and one of the largest computer
hard disk drive manufacturers in the world, along with its main competitor
Seagate Technology.
[3]
based in the U.S. and one of the largest data storage companies in the world. It designs, manufactures and sells a broad portfolio of data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services.
speciality
in second paragraph of lead to specialty
.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
with HGST
, which is the correct name.
certain
should be added before 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets
. Also of note: Both refs for that sentence—
[4]
[5]
—are dead links. Here are a new, external source to replace the first and an updated URL for the second:
[6]
[7]
Western Digital was the last manufacturer of
parallel ATA hard disk drives for laptops (2.5-inch form factor) and desktop PCs (3.5-inch form factor), by producing them until December 2013.
[8]
, up to the appropriate chronological location in the History section.
Western Digital announced in October 2017 that it will begin using microwave-assisted
magnetic recording (MAMR) instead of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) in order to increase HDD capacities over the next decade.
[9] The next month, the company announced that it will transition consumption of over a billion processor cores per year to
RISC-V, an open and scalable computing architecture of which the company is a founding member. The company claims that the transition will occur over the course of two years.
[10]
Recommend this as a new section or subsection of History:
Acquisition date | Company | Product types | Price | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 8, 2012 | HGST | HDD, SSD | $3.9×10 9 | [11] |
September 12, 2013 | STEC | SSD | $340,000,000 | [12] |
October 17, 2013 | Virident | SSD, system and software | $685,000,000 | [13] [14] |
March 16, 2015 | Amplidata | Software | — | [15] |
May 12, 2016 | SanDisk | SSD, system and software, NAND flash, embedded | $1.6×10 10 | [16] |
August 28, 2017 | Upthere | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [17] |
September 2017 | Tegile | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [18] |
I recommend removing this section entirely per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. It's also quite out of date and contains no sources.
===Data center products===
Western Digital’s
data center products include enterprise HDD and SSD, data center software and system solutions.
[19] The enterprise-class products are designed for high-performance, high-capacity applications. This group includes the Ultrastar product line.
[20] In October 2017, Western Digital shipped the world’s first 14 TB HDD, the helium-filled HGST Ultrastar Hs14.
[21]
[22]
Western Digital’s client device offerings include HDDs and SSDs for computing devices (e.g. PCs, security surveillance systems, gaming consoles and
set-top boxes); NAND-flash embedded storage products for mobile devices, notebook PCs and other portable and
IoT devices; and NAND flash memory wafers.
[23]
[24] Western Digital’s embedded storage devices include the iNAND product line and custom embedded products.
[25] Western Digital also provides microSD and
SD card products to
OEMs only for automotive and industrial applications.
[26]
Certain Western Digital client devices product names are based on colors that signify the characteristics of the drive:
average
with the more precise everyday
. Add "WD" before each color for specificity. Update the description of Green drives as follows: WD Green drives are energy efficient and are currently only available as an SSD; the WD Green HDD offerings have been discontinued
[27]
[28]
[29]
Western Digital (WD) distributes the following utilities for use with its hard drives.
, which is unsourced and confusing.In September 2015, Western Digital released My Cloud OS 3, a platform that enables connected HDDs (including network-attached storage) to sync automatically between PCs and mobile devices.
[30] The company’s NASware 3.0 allows NAS environments to have data protection, integration and optimized performance.
[31]
WD Discovery software lets users back up photos, videos and other documents from cloud storage services (e.g.
Dropbox,
Google Drive and
Microsoft OneDrive) and social networks (e.g.
Facebook and
Instagram).
[32]
[33]
===Consumer products===
Western Digital sells consumer data technology products under the WD, SanDisk, and G-Technology product brands, as well as cloud storage services under the Upthere brand. The WD brand includes the My Passport, My Book, My Cloud and WD Elements product families.
[23] While traditionally these products have used HDDs, Western Digital has started to offer SSD versions, such as the My Passport SSD, its first portable SSD.
[34]
Under the SanDisk brand, Western Digital offers mobile storage products, cards and readers, USB flash drives, SSDs and MP3 players. Most of Western Digital’s consumer flash memory products are offered through SanDisk.
[23] The SanDisk iXpand product family, including the iXpand Flash Drive and iXpand Base, is made specifically for use with the Apple
iPhone and
iPad.
[35]
[36]
[37] The 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card is the world’s highest capacity card in its category. It is designed primarily for use in
Android smartphones that include an expansion slot.
[38]
[39]
Under the
G-Technology brand, Western Digital offers HDD, SSD, platforms and systems products designed specifically for creative professionals.
[40]
[41] The G-Technology brand has partnerships with Apple,
[42] Atomos,
[43]
[44] and
Intel.
[45]
Through Western Digital’s acquisition of Upthere, the company offers personal cloud storage through the Upthere Home app and UpOS operating system.
[46]
[47]
Former offerings include
Western Digital Media Center and
over-the-top set-top boxes.
[48]
Recommend this as a new section, with the existing "Lawsuits" section as a subsection, and two new subsections:
===Western Digital Capital===
Western Digital Capital is Western Digital's investment arm.
[49]
[50] It has contributed funding for data technology companies such as Elastifile and
Avere Systems.
[51]
[52]
[53]
===Community engagement===
In 2017, Western Digital partnered with
UN Global Pulse to issue the Data for Climate Action Challenge, a contest to spread awareness of
climate change and how to slow it down. The challenge offered access to unique data shared with the participants as part of
data philanthropy.
[54]
[55]
Los Angeles
in the Portal template should be replaced with San Francisco Bay Area
, since the company is based in San Jose.
Extended content
|
---|
References
|
Due to my COI, I won't be editing the article directly. Thank you for any help or feedback you can share! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 18:32, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
@ MaryGaulke: I have made assorted improvements to the article, but it still needs much work. — Frayæ ( Talk/ Spjall) 20:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
There could probably be more information given on the real physical differences between each marketed "color", as well as incorporating their SSD offerings branded under the Western Digital Brand. Currently there's only information on why the "Purple" brand started being offered, but Gold vs Black vs Red; Green vs Blue would be probably useful information as well. Hubcapp ( talk) 05:18, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
An anonymous edit by 76.126.50.95 removed a line in the hard disk section stating that WD's external drives had poor disk encryption. The note on the removal was that it was "slanderous", "impertinent", and "unreliable." I reviewed the cited source and the paper it relied on, and I found the statement to be basically accurate. I clarified it to indicate that this applied specifically to data protection, not to the quality of the drive itself, and that it applied to external drives. I also added two additional sources backing up the citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macoukji ( talk • contribs) 05:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
{{ request edit}}
Hi! I work for a communications firm that represents Western Digital, and I have some requests for updating this article. I've broken them out by section:
[[NAND flash memory]]<br/>Mobile storage<br/>[[Network-attached storage]]<br/>[[Direct-attached storage]]<br/>Personal cloud <br/>[[JBOD]] and JBOF<br/>Storage servers<br/>All-flash and hybrid arrays<br/>Data center systems<br/>[[Cloud storage]] services
67,629 (2017)
[1]
to 72,000 (2018)
[2]
| subsid =
to | brands =
. Technically, these companies no longer operate independently, so it's inaccurate to call them subsidiaries. Add <br/>G-Technology <br/>Upthere <br/>WD
to the list.
and often abbreviated as WDC
be deleted from the first sentence of the lead. Happy to make a sandbox mockup with each mention highlighted if it's helpful.
an American
computer data storage company and one of the largest computer
hard disk drive manufacturers in the world, along with its main competitor
Seagate Technology.
[3]
based in the U.S. and one of the largest data storage companies in the world. It designs, manufactures and sells a broad portfolio of data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services.
speciality
in second paragraph of lead to specialty
.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
with HGST
, which is the correct name.
certain
should be added before 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets
. Also of note: Both refs for that sentence—
[4]
[5]
—are dead links. Here are a new, external source to replace the first and an updated URL for the second:
[6]
[7]
Western Digital was the last manufacturer of
parallel ATA hard disk drives for laptops (2.5-inch form factor) and desktop PCs (3.5-inch form factor), by producing them until December 2013.
[8]
, up to the appropriate chronological location in the History section.
Western Digital announced in October 2017 that it will begin using microwave-assisted
magnetic recording (MAMR) instead of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) in order to increase HDD capacities over the next decade.
[9] The next month, the company announced that it will transition consumption of over a billion processor cores per year to
RISC-V, an open and scalable computing architecture of which the company is a founding member. The company claims that the transition will occur over the course of two years.
[10]
Recommend this as a new section or subsection of History:
Acquisition date | Company | Product types | Price | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 8, 2012 | HGST | HDD, SSD | $3.9×10 9 | [11] |
September 12, 2013 | STEC | SSD | $340,000,000 | [12] |
October 17, 2013 | Virident | SSD, system and software | $685,000,000 | [13] [14] |
March 16, 2015 | Amplidata | Software | — | [15] |
May 12, 2016 | SanDisk | SSD, system and software, NAND flash, embedded | $1.6×10 10 | [16] |
August 28, 2017 | Upthere | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [17] |
September 2017 | Tegile | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [18] |
I recommend removing this section entirely per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. It's also quite out of date and contains no sources.
===Data center products===
Western Digital’s
data center products include enterprise HDD and SSD, data center software and system solutions.
[19] The enterprise-class products are designed for high-performance, high-capacity applications. This group includes the Ultrastar product line.
[20] In October 2017, Western Digital shipped the world’s first 14 TB HDD, the helium-filled HGST Ultrastar Hs14.
[21]
[22]
Western Digital’s client device offerings include HDDs and SSDs for computing devices (e.g. PCs, security surveillance systems, gaming consoles and
set-top boxes); NAND-flash embedded storage products for mobile devices, notebook PCs and other portable and
IoT devices; and NAND flash memory wafers.
[23]
[24] Western Digital’s embedded storage devices include the iNAND product line and custom embedded products.
[25] Western Digital also provides microSD and
SD card products to
OEMs only for automotive and industrial applications.
[26]
Certain Western Digital client devices product names are based on colors that signify the characteristics of the drive:
average
with the more precise everyday
. Add "WD" before each color for specificity. Update the description of Green drives as follows: WD Green drives are energy efficient and are currently only available as an SSD; the WD Green HDD offerings have been discontinued
[27]
[28]
[29]
Western Digital (WD) distributes the following utilities for use with its hard drives.
, which is unsourced and confusing.In September 2015, Western Digital released My Cloud OS 3, a platform that enables connected HDDs (including network-attached storage) to sync automatically between PCs and mobile devices.
[30] The company’s NASware 3.0 allows NAS environments to have data protection, integration and optimized performance.
[31]
WD Discovery software lets users back up photos, videos and other documents from cloud storage services (e.g.
Dropbox,
Google Drive and
Microsoft OneDrive) and social networks (e.g.
Facebook and
Instagram).
[32]
[33]
===Consumer products===
Western Digital sells consumer data technology products under the WD, SanDisk, and G-Technology product brands, as well as cloud storage services under the Upthere brand. The WD brand includes the My Passport, My Book, My Cloud and WD Elements product families.
[23] While traditionally these products have used HDDs, Western Digital has started to offer SSD versions, such as the My Passport SSD, its first portable SSD.
[34]
Under the SanDisk brand, Western Digital offers mobile storage products, cards and readers, USB flash drives, SSDs and MP3 players. Most of Western Digital’s consumer flash memory products are offered through SanDisk.
[23] The SanDisk iXpand product family, including the iXpand Flash Drive and iXpand Base, is made specifically for use with the Apple
iPhone and
iPad.
[35]
[36]
[37] The 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card is the world’s highest capacity card in its category. It is designed primarily for use in
Android smartphones that include an expansion slot.
[38]
[39]
Under the
G-Technology brand, Western Digital offers HDD, SSD, platforms and systems products designed specifically for creative professionals.
[40]
[41] The G-Technology brand has partnerships with Apple,
[42] Atomos,
[43]
[44] and
Intel.
[45]
Through Western Digital’s acquisition of Upthere, the company offers personal cloud storage through the Upthere Home app and UpOS operating system.
[46]
[47]
Former offerings include
Western Digital Media Center and
over-the-top set-top boxes.
[48]
Recommend this as a new section, with the existing "Lawsuits" section as a subsection, and two new subsections:
===Western Digital Capital===
Western Digital Capital is Western Digital's investment arm.
[49]
[50] It has contributed funding for data technology companies such as Elastifile and
Avere Systems.
[51]
[52]
[53]
===Community engagement===
In 2017, Western Digital partnered with
UN Global Pulse to issue the Data for Climate Action Challenge, a contest to spread awareness of
climate change and how to slow it down. The challenge offered access to unique data shared with the participants as part of
data philanthropy.
[54]
[55]
Los Angeles
in the Portal template should be replaced with San Francisco Bay Area
, since the company is based in San Jose.
Extended content
|
---|
References
|
Due to my COI, I won't be editing the article directly. Thank you for any help or feedback you can share! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 18:32, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
@ MaryGaulke: I have made assorted improvements to the article, but it still needs much work. — Frayæ ( Talk/ Spjall) 20:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
There could probably be more information given on the real physical differences between each marketed "color", as well as incorporating their SSD offerings branded under the Western Digital Brand. Currently there's only information on why the "Purple" brand started being offered, but Gold vs Black vs Red; Green vs Blue would be probably useful information as well. Hubcapp ( talk) 05:18, 4 August 2020 (UTC)