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    Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered...
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    The Western Digital Raptor (often marketed as WD Raptor, 2.5" models known as VelociRaptor) is a discontinued series of high performance hard disk drives...
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    disk controller chip produced by Western Digital. It is the first in a line of floppy disk controllers that Western Digital produced. It uses single density...
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    My Book is a series of external hard drives produced by Western Digital. There are at least nine series of My Book drives: Essential Edition, Home Edition...
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  • The Media Center, branded by Western Digital, is a 7,200-rpm hard drive (either 160GB or 250GB), combined with a reader of CompactFlash Type I and II...
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    consolidation, most units are manufactured by Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. HDDs dominate the volume of storage produced (exabytes per year) for...
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  • Safier v. Western Digital Corporation. Western Digital Corporation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-22. Retrieved 2007-09-09. "Western Digital Settles...
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    SD card (redirect from Secure digital)
    "Western Digital Demonstrates Prototype of the World's First 1Terabyte SDXC Card". sandisk.com. Retrieved 2016-09-20. Shilov, Anton. "Western Digital Launches...
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    the question, such as a lawsuit against drive manufacturer Western Digital. Western Digital settled the challenge and added explicit disclaimers to products...
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    inch form factor. 2009 - Western Digital is the first to offer a 1 TB hard drive in a 2.5 inch form factor. 2009 – Western Digital ships first HDD with dual...
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  • Western Digital Corporation's Brief in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Approval". Orin Safier v. Western Digital Corporation. Western Digital...
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    designed for IBM PC-compatible computers. It was first developed by Western Digital and Compaq in 1986 for compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives...
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    drive on the same day as Hitachi, in February 2005. In early 2005, Western Digital announced they would be joining the mini hard drive market with their...
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    SanDisk (category Western Digital)
    current name in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital. As of March 2019,[update] Western Digital was the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory...
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    Compaq's development partners Seagate, Quantum, and Conner, and by Western Digital, which did not have a failure prediction system at the time. The Committee...
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  • Western Digital alleging that the technology is inferior was settled on or before August 27, 2021. Due to the controversy, as of June 2020, Western Digital...
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  • aimed at entry level laptops and high end netbooks in December 2009. Western Digital released on April 23, 2013 a hard drive 5 mm in height specifically...
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  • current hard disk drive manufacturers: Seagate Technology Toshiba Western Digital Note: the HDDs internal to these devices are manufactured only by the...
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    memory, with some sources estimating the loss as high as 15 exabytes. Western Digital used (and still uses) Kioxia's facilities for making its own flash...
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    as a reference device for other vendors. In June 2017, Western Digital shut down Western Digital Labs, which caused the production of the box to end. In...
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    Western Digital Stadium Kitakami (ウエスタンデジタルスタジアムきたかみ) is a multi-use stadium in Kitakami, Iwate, Japan. It is used mostly for track and field events....
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    "Protect Your Company from Theft: Self Encrypting Drives". Western Digital Blog. Western Digital Corporation. Retrieved 8 May 2018. "DRM". Electronic Frontier...
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    HGST (category Western Digital)
    through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously...
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  • In computing, error recovery control (ERC) (Western Digital: time-limited error recovery (TLER), Samsung/Hitachi: command completion time limit (CCTL))...
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  • Archived from the original on 2013-08-04. Retrieved 2013-08-08. "Western Digital SSD Products". Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved...
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    2014. "WD Re Datacenter Distribution Specification Sheet" (PDF). Western Digital. January 21, 2016. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-06...
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  • Elevation Partners, and Google Ventures. Upthere was acquired by Western Digital on August 28, 2017. In July 2012 he joined the board of directors of...
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  • Semiconductor IMP-16 (1973), the two-chip NEC μCOM-16 (1974), the three-chip Western Digital MCP-1600 (1975), and the five-chip Toshiba T-3412 (1976). Early single-chip...
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  • systems. The term preemptive wear leveling (PWL) has been used by Western Digital to describe their preservation technique used on hard disk drives (HDDs)...
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    2011, Hitachi agreed to sell its hard disk drive subsidiary, HGST, to Western Digital for a combination of cash and shares worth US$4.3 billion. Due to concerns...
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