The new WD Caviar 120 GB hard drive provides storage for up to 2,000 digital photos, 5 hours of digital video, 45 hours of digital music, 22 games and 35 software programs.
"With the availability of data-rich applications on the Internet and the increased use of digital devices, demand on large storage capacity has dramatically increased in the Middle East," said Rauf Baig, Western Digital's Regional Sales Manager with responsibility for the markets of the Middle East, Africa, and South West Asia.
"Accordingly, Western Digital has developed the high-capacity, high-performance Caviar 120 GB drive to provide users in the region with reliable storage for their need to store huge amounts of data, such as movies, live news broadcasts, HTML web pages, and large-size digital photos," added Baig.
The launch of WD's 120 GB drive marks the third consecutive first-to-market 7,200 RPM hard drive delivered by Western Digital, which was also the first company to deliver 7,200 RPM hard drives in capacities of 80 and 100 GBs.
According to TrendFOCUS in its Q2 2001 Quarterly Update, Western Digital "has become the leading supplier" in the "expanding market" for 7,200 RPM hard drives.
"The new WD Caviar 120 GB drive provides the greatest peace-of-mind to today's digital-savvy and storage-hungry power users in the Middle East, who rely on their hard drives to perform quickly and flawlessly," stated Baig.
WD's new Caviar technology is ideal for Middle East's users who take full advantage of massive personal storage for work, or pleasure-related activities, such as sophisticated business applications, digital video editing, music, movies and photography.
In addition, Western Digital has seen a growing demand for higher EIDE-based storage solutions for the server units in the enterprise sector in the Middle East as well. And the new Caviar 120 GB is especially designed to address this demand.
The new WD Caviar 7,200 RPM 120 GB drive is available in the Middle East markets through Western Digital's long term partners, which are: Al-Yousuf Distribution, Servex (ME) Ltd., Tech Data, NAC, Nahil Computers, and Jamjoum Advanced Technologies.
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To better enable Middle East IT users to benefit from the ever-increasing requirements for PC data storage, Western Digital - a world leader in personal computing storage - today announced, the availability of its highest capacity desktop EIDE hard drive which offers 120 gigabytes (GB) of digital storage, at a 7,200 RPM performance speed.
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Western Digital, 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. Its core business, hard drive solutions, produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data close-at-hand and secure from loss. Applying its data storage core competencies to emerging markets, Western Digital's new ventures meet the increasing demand for innovative information management solutions arising from the proliferation of the Internet and broadband services. Keen Personal Media provides interactive personal video recorder and set-top box software, services and hardware for broadband television content management and commerce. Connex designs Network Attached Storage products that enable IT managers to quickly expand network storage, and software that simplifies the central management of Storage Area Networks. SageTree is a software company providing enterprise manufacturing and supply chain analytic applications.
Western Digital was founded in 1970. The Company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital brand name. Visit the Investor section of our Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
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Western Digital, 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. Its core business, hard drive solutions, produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data close-at-hand and secure from loss. Applying its data storage core competencies to emerging markets, Western Digital's new ventures meet the increasing demand for innovative information management solutions arising from the proliferation of the Internet and broadband services. Keen Personal Media provides interactive personal video recorder and set-top box software, services and hardware for broadband television content management and commerce. Connex designs Network Attached Storage products that enable IT managers to quickly expand network storage, and software that simplifies the central management of Storage Area Networks. SageTree is a software company providing enterprise manufacturing and supply chain analytic applications.
Western Digital was founded in 1970. The Company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital brand name. Visit the Investor section of our Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
For further information, please contact:
Wallis Marketing Consultants
T: (971-4) 332-3225
F: (971-4) 332-3228
Attn: Mr. Michael E. Wallis, Mr. Nawfal Al-Jourani
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