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Western Digital Corporation Description

Western Digital Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells storage products and solutions that enable people to create, manage, experience, and preserve digital content. It provides hard drives and solid-state hybrid drives for desktop and mobile personal computers (PCs); and hard drives and solid-state drives for performance enterprise and capacity enterprise markets. The company also offers drives used in consumer electronic solutions, such as digital video recorders, gaming consoles, set top boxes, camcorders, and entertainment and navigation systems in automobiles. In addition, it provides hard drives embedded into WD, HGST, and G-Technology branded external storage appliances with capacities ranging from 500 GB to 24 TB, as well as using various interfaces, such as USB 2.0, USB 3.0, external SATA, FireWire, Thunderbolt, and Ethernet network connections. The company sells its products to computer manufacturers, resellers, and retailers worldwide. It serves storage subsystem suppliers, Internet and social media infrastructure players, and PC and Mac providers. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Sector: Technology
Industry: Data Storage
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