Hey guys!  I got a DEAL for you–seems the crew out at Newegg is selling a Western Digital My DVR Expander WDG1S5000 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive for just under eighty bucks, with free shipping.

This sucker comes with five hundred gig of storage, which is about enough for about two hundred and fifty hours of video.  It’s also got an eSATA interface, and was designed especially to serve as an add-on for most DVRs.

So if you’re like me, and you find yourself butting up against your storage limit from taping one too many good movies or trying in vain to keep up with an entire season of, well, something or other, there’s a few good choices but one title here’s almost as good as the next, then you should be able to give your DVR lots more space for not a lot of money thanks to the crew out at Newegg and Western Digital.

Western Digital has officially unveiled the WD TV Live Media player, featuring support for 1080p videos. So now, owners of this WD TV Live media player can transfer video files from their PC or MAC to external hard drives which they can in turn hook up to their TV sets for wider audience viewing. It supports most video formats without any encoding needed. It has a dual USB port hence making it possible to play videos directly from USB drives. For ports, it comes with an HDMI 1.3, composite video and component video outputs along with SPDIF digital sound output for surround sound. The Western Digital WDBAAN0000NBK WD TV retails for $149.99.

(Source) Slashgear

A few days ago we gave you a glimpse of one of Western Digital’s HD media players entitled the WD TV-2. Today, however, Western Digital has notified us of a cheaper, less feature intensive media player entitled the WD TV Mini.

The little device you see above will feature a USB port for the playback of just about every file type you can throw at it, composite and component outputs with resolutions up to 1080i. Unfortunately, there is no HDMI port or 1080p support but remember, this is for the budget conscious consumers out there.

Western Digital’s WD TV Mini is available now from a variety of retailers for $99.

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Picking up from the success of its WD TV HD Media Player last year, a leaked WD TV-2 has come out but promises to be a lot better. The latest HD Media Player offering now features network playback over new Ethernet jacks, DTS audio decoding and a plug for people caught in between composite and HDMI.

It comes with a bundle of codec support which means that it can practically cater to most video formats we have today. No definite date of release or price has been reported but this should all be answered in a couple of months.

(Source) Engadget

Western Digital has done it again! The company has released the first 2.5-inch 1TB hard drive so you can go right ahead and plan your next desktop upgrade. Besides the 1TB version, Western Digital has also launched a 750GB version.

The WD Scorpio Blue 750GB and 1TB drives will offer you transfer speeds of up to 3 gigabits per second and a bunch of features:

WhisperDrive™ - WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to produce one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives available.
ShockGuard™ - Leading-edge ShockGuard technology combines firmware and hardware advancements to meet the highest combined shock tolerance specifications required for mobile and notebook applications.
SecurePark™ - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear and improved shock tolerance.

The WD Scorpio 750GB drive is already available and it’s already configured in the My Passport Essential SE USB drives and it will cost you $189.99. The WD Scorpio Blue 1TB will cost $249.99 so now you have all the facts to make your decision. Which WD drive will you purchase?

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When’s the last time your external hard drive got burned? Submersed under water? Most of us didn’t have such experiences yet but in case we will want to keep our data protected even when its under water or surrounded by flames then we should get that new HDD from ioSafe.

$199 will get us a 500GB model but if we’re willing to spend that much then we’d better get the 1.5TB model which costs $349. The external HDD in the picture will survive for three days in ten feet of water or 30 minutes in a great fire. Oh and the Solo isn’t the name of the hard drive itself. That’s the name of the case which will protect the drive. Inside there’s actually a Western Digital or Seagate drive.