WD grits teeth, hands over the goodies to Toshiba to regulators and dentists’ delight

Western Digital has completed its FTC-ordered handover of assets to Toshiba in order to buy Hitachi’s HDD business Viviti .

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IRL: Blue Mics Yeti, Western Digital My Passport and Razer’s Naga Hex gaming mouse

Welcome to IRL , an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. It’s been a busy week for tech writers

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Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 ports included

Just days after WD revealed new 2TB My Passport drives for the USB 3.0-respecting world, along comes an option for those running OS X. Aside from the conventional USB 2.0 socket on the My Passport Studio, the Mac-friendly unit also packs a pair of FireWire 800 sockets. Not surprisingly, it ships with hardware-based encryption and password protection software, and while it’ll probably come formatted for an Apple, there’s nothing at all stopping other platforms from taking advantage

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TiVo Premiere DVRs may get more storage soon, $149 500GB units appear for preorders

Just like the initial run of TiVo Premiere DVRs two years ago, it appears that a refreshed version has been spotted at retail prior to any official announcement from the company. TiVo may be waiting for its official birthday March 31st to unwrap the new models, but a poster at TiVo Community has dug up listings at Amazon and JR.com showing the new TCD746500 TiVo Premiere with 500GB HDD retailing for $149 (with 1 year service plan at $14.99, of course). That can be compared to the original’s 320GB drive that’s currently selling at around $80.

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Seagate hits one terabit per square inch, compares self favorably to the Milky Way

You know that big new hard drive you just picked up? Get ready to feel bad.

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Seagate GoFlex Satellite reportedly getting firmware update on March 19th

Still rockin’ one of those (cargo) pocket-sized GoFlex streaming drives we showed you a while back? Marvelous. According to Gear Diary , Seagate’s given the site intel saying it’s getting ready to roll out a Satellite firmware refresh on the 19th of this month

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Western Digital MyBook Thunderbolt Duo is available now starting at $600

Back at Macworld, we laid our peepers on Western Digital’s MyBook Thunderbolt Duo and were able to take a demo setup for a quick spin.

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FTC: Western Digital and Hitachi must give assets and IP rights to Toshiba (update: sale approved)

Thought everything was looking rosy for the hard drive hitch of the year? Well, it looks like Federal Trade Commission reckons the union of Hitachi and Western Digital isn’t quite there just yet, ordering that the new company would have to shed some of its assets to Toshiba

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OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity

It’s MacWorld, which means those providers of Apple gear are busting out wares for aftermarket insertion into your objects of desire.

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Sanho’s bantam CloudFTP puts USB storage devices online, streams on battery power and sheer will

Pogoplug, as they say, just got served. Sanho — the same geniuses responsible for the HyperMac — is introducing yet another intelligent box here at CES 2012

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