WD ships second-generation Green hard drives with significantly improved power efficiency and performance

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About Western Digital:
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. The company produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. WD applies its storage expertise to consumer products for external, portable and shared storage products.

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

Western Digital, WD, the WD logo and WD Caviar are registered trademarks and Green, IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, NoTouch and GreenPower are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks herein are property of their respective owner. As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes.

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