Western Digital Technologies

Western Digital develops, manufactures, and sells data storage solutions.

Western Digital (WD) develops, manufactures, and sells data storage solutions. Its solutions enable consumers, businesses, governments, and other organizations to create, manage, experience, and preserve digital content. The company offers hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs) as well as the performance enterprise and capacity enterprise markets. It also provides HDDs used in consumer electronics such as DVRs, gaming consoles, security surveillance systems, set-top boxes, camcorders, entertainment and automobile navigation systems, and multifunctional printers. The company sells its products to computer manufacturers, resellers, and retailers worldwide. It serves storage subsystem suppliers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), PC and Mac OEMs, and internet and social media infrastructure players. With the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), now a fully owned subsidiary of Western Digital, it has expanded research and development resources as well as a broader product portfolio, greater manufacturing scale, and larger geographic footprint. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.