Western Digital Corporation is a global American technology company that is primarily involved in computer hard disk drive manufacturing and data storage solutions. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California, and engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of various data technology products, including storage devices, data centre systems and cloud storage services. The company was founded in 1970.
The company makes hard-disk drives (HDDs), and solid-state drives (SSDs), known as flash drives, which are used in a range of mobile devices, along with related products. PC drives account for the majority of the firm’s sales, although the company also makes other devices and solutions that are used in servers, cloud storage, and home entertainment products such as set-top boxes and video game consoles. The company primarily sells its products to manufacturers, retailers, and distributors around the globe.
The firm’s personal and professional storage brands include SanDisk, SanDisk Professional, Western Digital and WD. Consumer products offered by the company include USB flash drives, memory cards, MP3 players, portable drives, and specialised gaming drives and memory cards. The firm is listed on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker WDC.
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