Western Digital Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of storage products and solutions that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. The company principally offers hard drives comprising 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors. It offers hard drives for performance enterprise and capacity enterprise, as well as enterprise-class solid state drives for embedded applications under the HGST Ultrastar, WD RE, WD XE, and WD SiliconDrive brand names; hard drives and solid state drives for desktop and mobile PCs under the HGST Deskstar, HGST Travelstar, WD Black, WD Blue, WD Green, WD Red, and WD VelociRaptor brand names; and drives used in consumer electronics, and entertainment and navigation systems used in automobiles under the HGST CinemaStar, HGST Endurastar, WD AV, and HGST iVDR brand names. It also offers hard drives embedded into WD, HGST, and G-Technology branded external storage solutions with capacities ranging from 500 GB to 16 TB and 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, retailers, consumers, and content creation professionals worldwide. It serves markets addressing storage opportunities and needs in enterprise/IT and cloud hyperscale data centers, client, consumer electronics, backup, the Internet, and other markets, such as audio/video content creators, automotive and home and small office networking. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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