Western Digital unveiled the new (and smaller) My Passport Essential and My Passport for Mac ultra-portable external hard drives. The drives feature WD’s new WD SmartWare software. My Passport ...

The software has two easy-to-use backup settings, allowing customers to set up their preferred file backup process. The “continuous backup” setting sets up an automatic, continuous backup that works ...

Try as they might, the hard drive companies just can’t convince consumers to backup their precious computer data. Only about 14 percent of consumers use an external hard drive, according to hard disk ...

File sharing with your own hardware doesn’t get any easier or cheaper than with the My Cloud Mirror. On the other hand, configuration for advanced capabilities is geeky, and the app environment isn’t ...

Western Digital is announcing three new families of external hard drives today, all of them with indicators that tell you how much free storage you have. WD, the biggest player in external hard disk ...