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To overcome the problems associated with flash cards and hard drives that were originally designed for personal computer applications and consumer electronics, a breakthrough in advanced storage technology has been engineered with the so called Silicon Drives. Silicon Drive III represents the industry’s very first advanced storage technology. It also comes with integrated PowerArmor and SiSMART technologies. The technology involved has been field proven in thousands of customer applications so far.

In March 2009 WD acquired Silicon systems and began shipping its new silicon drive III SSD product family which was actually based on technology developed by Silicon systems. These Silicon Drives are perfect replacement for hard drives used in data processing centers, blade servers and also in industrial and embedded systems apart from places where forward looking and high performance, reliable storage solutions are required. The other features like high transfer rates and capacities of Silicon Drive III enable operation for new multimedia applications involving high data volumes. Also due to the high reliability and the long lifetime of Silicon Drive III flash storage solutions, digital streaming applications like Video on Demand or VOD, Internet Protocol Television or IPTV and digital monitoring, control systems have been able to benefit a lot. Continue reading “Silicon Drive III” »

The 2 TB model of the MyBook world edition II comes with two 1 TB Green edition hard drives, formatted in mirrored, redundant RAID1. There is an advantage of RAID1 over using the 2 drives as single volume, as it helps keeps a complete copy of data and ensure the data is safe and secure in case a hard drive does fail. The main advantage of World edition II is that it offers small and medium business disaster recover which is cheap and simple. In case of disasters, the world edition II swaps the dead drive with a new drive and automatically rebuilds the live drive onto the backup drive, thus make a complete disaster recovery solution.

The new version world edition II network storage device comes with new features and a design with less heat emission due to green line of western digital hard drives and has less power consumption as compared with world edition. The initial process for set up and configuration hardly takes 10 minutes and all you need is the CD with your computer for configuring the device. For windows based computers you can install two applications namely WD Discovery client application and the other one which is available for both windows and OSX is WD Backup application.

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