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Western Digital: Providing Reliable NAS Solutions

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WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. Established in 1970, WD is headquartered in Irvine, California. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. WD also manufactures leading storage solutions, networking products, media players and software solutions that empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices.

WD offers desktop drives in various categories to meet diverse computing scenarios. While WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability for everyday computing, WD Green hard drives are designed for use in systems or external storage devices that require drives that are power efficient and run cool and quiet.Keeping in mind the demand for power computing, WD Black hard drives cater to enthusiasts and creative professionals.
Designed specifically for 1-to-5 bay home or small office network attached storage (NAS) systems, WD’s Red drives deliver a next generation NAS experience. Another innovation in the hard disk space, WD’s workstation class VelociRaptor drives offers consumers a rotational speed of 10,000rpm. These drives are perfect for workstations, high-end video and photo editing, entry-level servers and enthusiast systems.

A unique and first in the mobile drives category, WD Black2™ dual drive, fuse a 120GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1 TB hard disk drive (HDD). The end result is a powerful dual drive solution for those looking to upgrade notebooks, small form factor desktops, and single-slot and all-in-one (AIO) systems with both SSD level performance and HDD capacity.
WD’s family of enterprise products includes the XE, RE and SE drives, which provide solutions to enterprises for their demanding applications, high availability deployments and scale-out architectures respectively. Ideal for small businesses, WD also offers the Sentinel range that is designed for storage plus server capabilities.

In sync with today’s mobile lifestyle that demands sleeker and higher capacity products, WD offers an attractive range of portable drives. My Passport Ultra and My Passport Slim offer up to 2TB capacity and deliver USB 3.0 performance, local and cloud backup, password protection and hardware encryption. WD’s array of external drives also include My Book Live and My Book Live Duo, both of which allow users to store their data in one place and access it wirelessly from anywhere.

WD’s range of media players, WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub allow users to play their movies, music and photos in virtually any file format, giving them the option to stream the latest entertainment from the best online services all from one box in Full-HD 1080p.

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