Western Digital Corp (WD) is a world-renowned hard disk manufacturer. The company was founded in 1970 and began designing and manufacturing hard drives in 1988. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, it is one of the oldest hard disk drive manufacturers and one of the founders of the IDE interface.
The company has manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, California, and Thailand, design facilities in southern and northern California, and operating divisions around the world.WD focused on IDE after exiting the SCSI market in 1999, posting $1.015 billion in six-month sales in the second half of 2001 and maintaining a $33 million profit.WD is a company that is not good at publicizing itself, allowing people to get the word out. WD is a company that is not good at publicity, so that people can remember the unique technology of only a few, in fact, WD's technological strength is not to be underestimated, the performance of its hard disk at a high level for a long time certainly have the support of advanced technology. For a long time, Western Digital has been committed to the world's personal computer users to provide perfect storage solutions, Western Digital in the user and the collection, management and use of digital information organizations have a wealth of experience in the service. WD's product line covers enterprise servers, desktop IDE hard drives, mobile storage applications and AV domains.