WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

SiliconDrive is advanced solid-state storage technology engineered exclusively for the embedded system OEM Market. SiliconDrive offers high performance and high reliability with a low total cost of storage ownership.

The SiliconDrive family of SSDs feature patented technology engineered to solve the industry's toughest problems.

• PowerArmor eliminates drive corruption from power disturbances
• SiSMART forecasts SSD useable life
• SolidStor ensures data integrity and multi-year product life
• SiSecure protects application data and software IP
• LifeEST methodology calculates SSD endurance