When it comes to PC storage, SSDs are definitely the sexy choice. However, their one drawback, aside from higher prices compared to their mechanical brethren, is smaller capacities. That’s the one area where mechanical disks still dominate, and Western Digital’s newest units only reinforce that fact.
The company announced two new additions to its “Green” line of consumer-oriented 3.5-inch hard drives. One has 5TB of space, while the other has 6TB of room for your stuff. Both drives will include a 64GB cache, along with the company’s IntelliPower energy-management tech. Western Digital claims that because of the line’s eco-friendly features, the drives run cooler, which enables them to last longer.
According to this official Western Digital document, their two new Green drives are the fastest in the whole series. The 6TB version transmits data at speeds of up to 175MB/s, while the 5TB model is slightly slower, shuttling data at a rate of 170MB/s. They’re also the most power-hungry of the bunch, sipping 5.3 watts when in use, 3.4 watts when idle, and 0.4 watts when sleeping or on standby.
Western Digital says that the 6TB drive can be used with its My Cloud, My Cloud EX2, My Cloud EX4, My Cloud Mirror, My Book, and My Book Duo storage devices, though it fails to mention whether the 5TB model will be compatible with those units as well. Along with the new Green drive, Western Digital also announced a bunch of Red drives, which are geared for use with NAS (Network Attached Storage) gear.
Western Digital has not revealed when these new Green drives will be available, or how much they’ll cost once they’re on the market. We looked around on Google, Newegg, and Amazon, and haven’t been able to find them, so it doesn’t appear that they’re available just yet. We imagine that they will be soon, though.
Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).