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Western Digital Corporation (WDC)

Western Digital WDC Western Digital Corporation is a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of data storage devices and solutions. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company operates in various regions, including the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the rest of Asia, serving customers globally. The company provides a range of client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs), catering to computing devices such as desktop and notebook PCs, gaming consoles, smart video systems, and set-top boxes.

Western Digital Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of data storage devices and solutions. It operates through the Flash and Hard Disk Drive segments. The Flash segment represents flash-based data storage devices. The Hard Disk Drive segment provides hard disk storage solutions. The company was founded by Alvin B. Phillips in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Western Digital markets its products under the Western Digital, SanDisk, and WD brands, supplying original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers. Western Digital offers flash-based embedded storage products used in mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, wearable devices, automotive applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, industrial equipment, and connected home applications. These solutions provide efficient and reliable data storage.

Western Digital's reliable hard drives and solid state drives, marketed under the WD and HGST brands, are everywhere that digital information and content is found: in the cloud, supporting your mobile digital lifestyle. Western Digital offers an expansive technology and product portfolio spanning platforms and systems for data center environments; embedded, SSD and HDD devices for mobility, edge and computing environments; and consumer products for personal and shared storage use cases. Western Digital's proven brands and products make it easy to capture, preserve, access and manage ever-increasing amounts of data.

Internal HDD

Affordably upgrade your PC or Smart Video system with higher capacity hard disk drives. Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive by innovating how customers capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. From advanced data centers to personal devices, Western Digital solutions deliver new possibilities.

Internal SSD

Internal SSD

Discover solid state drives that can access data lightning fast and reduce boot-up time. Get a range of data center and cloud enterprise-class storage solutions designed to offer the ideal combination of ease of deployment and change, coupled with high levels of performance and reliability.

Commercial Internal Drives

Commercial Internal Drives

OEM drives, made for manufacturers, offer speed and capacity for your business. Get innovation at every level of the storage stack. Designed to dramatically improve the performance of databases, these solutions offer greater capacity and high availability, and they are drop-in ready where high performance is critical.

data-center-drives

Data Center Drives

Large capacity HDDs and high performance SSDs to support your data center needs. WD Drives are optimized to deliver the highest performance and consistent QoS read latency when running random mixed workloads typically generated by enterprise applications such as virtualization, OLTP, NoSQL, web servers, file servers and mail servers.

data-center-platforms

Data Center Platforms

Complete portfolio of storage platforms and specialized storage servers. Western Digital data centers enable you to gain and leverage insights that you can extract from zettabytes of data.

Embedded Flash

Embedded Flash

Explore these embedded flash solutions that connect you to your car, home, and more. Embedded Flash (eFlash) memory is a key enabling technology for many programmable semiconductor products requiring small form factor and low-power processing. For example, microcontrollers use eFlash to store program instructions (code) as well as data on which processing is performed. The ability to update the code and data is essential.

USB Flash Drives

USB Flash Drives

Super compact, stylish, and ready to share, these USB flash drives go wherever you go. Optimized with automatic and flexible backup functions, these personal storage solutions offer easier organization and faster transfer speeds whether you're in the comfort of your own home or always on the go.

Industrial Removable Storage

Commercial Removable Storage

OEM designed memory cards and USB drives for your IoT, automotive, Smart Video, and other storage needs.

Industrial Removable Storage

Memory Cards

Fast memory cards for your cell phones and other devices to capture every image in a flash.

External Desktop Drives

External Drives

Create your own archive and backup safely at home with our lineup of external drives.

Portable Drives

Portable Drives

Lightweight, water-resistant, rugged are just some of the features of our portable drives.

Personal Cloud _ NAS Drives

NAS for Home and Office

Save virtually anything — and access it from anywhere with an internet connection — with our personal cloud and network attached storage (NAS) solutions.

Accessories

Accessories & Docks

Adapters, covers, readers, and tool kit must-haves to complement your equipment.

 

MP3 Players

MP3 Players

Never miss a beat when you take all of your favorite MP3 music on-the-go.