Western Digital

Western Digital designs and manufactures data storage solutions, including hard disk drives and NAND flash-based solid-state storage, serving personal creative workflows and enterprise data centres. The company frames its work around capturing, preserving and accessing the world's information, and positions its products within the infrastructure underpinning the AI-driven data economy.

Founded in 1970 as General Digital Corporation, the company has accumulated more than 50 years of expertise in magnetic recording and NAND flash technology. Its technical domains span magnetic recording, hard disk drives, solid-state storage, NAND flash, semiconductor test equipment, floppy disk controllers and calculator chip manufacturing, reflecting an evolution from early semiconductor components into a dedicated storage technology business.

Products are offered under several brands: WD for consumer and enterprise storage, G-Technology for creative workflows, SanDisk for flash and storage solutions, and WD_BLACK for performance-oriented use. The portfolio covers high-capacity magnetic drives and flash-based storage for personal and enterprise data centres, with a stated emphasis on reliability, capacity and performance. The company operates globally across the data storage, enterprise data centre, consumer electronics and semiconductor sectors.