WESTERN DIGITAL UNVEILS ITS LATEST SOLIDSTATE DRIVE PORTFOLIO THAT DELIVERS TOP LINE PERFORMANCE FOR PC USERS

Introduces the WD Black SN750 NVMeSSD aimed at gamers in India 

New Delhi, 18thJune 2019 –As a part of its efforts to enhance Solid State Drive (SSD) adoption in India, Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data storage technology and solutions leader today showcased its portfolio of Solid-State Drives for consumers in India. The SSDs provide consumers with super-fast, performance-oriented, reliable storage solutions that deliver focused benefits to audiences across price segments. The company also announced the availability in Indiaof its new high-performance WD Black™ SN750 NVMe™ SSD with powerful speed, top-tier performance and Western Digital's 3D NAND technology, at the event.

Built on Western Digital’s own 3D NAND technology the WD Black™ SN750 NVMe™ SSD houses up to 2TB capacity on a single-sided M.2 form factor and is also available with an integrated heatsink to help maintain speed and optimum temperature. Crafted with perfection, the enhanced drive provides exceptional performance that accelerates gaming, to deliver the bandwidth and address the multi-tasking demands of users requiring high-performance computing. It helps gamers, video-editors, and other users navigate several challenges including higher performance demands and provides top-level transfer speeds for large file sizes, eventually giving a boost to the system’s overall responsiveness. 

Speaking on the announcement, Khalid Wani, Director– Channel Sales India, Western Digital,said, “We have witnessed a gradual shift towards SSDs among consumers with a rising demand for high-end computing systems. Our SSD product portfolio is spread across categories, and caters to every consumer segment, whether it is the high-end gamer or even the first time PC buyer. TheWD Black SN750 NVMe SSDis built to deliver unrivaled performance with an architecture designed for gaming and other high-performance activities. We hope the gaming community and high-performance PC enthusiasts across the country, take this opportunity to optimize their PCs into performance beasts, and enjoy a computing performance which is at par to none.”

Additionally, the SSD features up to 515,000 random-read and 560,000 random-write IOPS (for 1TB model) for extreme throughput, allowing the SSD to manage multi-threaded applications and data-intensive environments. This eventually enables higher responsiveness when accessing multiple files in various locations to load new levels or games efficiently while saving in-game progress during gameplay. 

Speaking of Western Digital’s focus on expanding the SSD market,Jaganathan Chelliah – Director, IndiaMarketing, Western Digital said, “There is a healthy growth in high performance PCs fueled by increasinginterest in gaming. Western Digital WD Black and WD Blue SSDs based on the latest NVMe technology offer top level performance to gamers and creative professionals. SSDs give a performance boost even on every day computing needs.  WD Blue SSDsdelivershighperformancewithefficientpowerconsumption. It’s a perfect solution for creative professionals and content creators.

Western Digital’s SSD storage solutions are designed to improve read speeds up to 3470MB/s* (for 1TB model). The SSD range comprises of theWD Black NVMe SSD, WD Blue™ SSD and WD Green™ SATA SSD.The WD Black SSD caters to the high-end performance PC enthusiast, while the WD Blue SSD offers high end performance for mainstream PCs.

Western Digital continues to provide Indian customers with state-of-the-art data storage solutions through their extensive range of products and services at compelling price to ensure consumers have a reliable way to preserve their valuable data. The company strives to continue to deliver many such innovative products which deliver the latest technology while keeping the consumer’s best interest in mind. 

All variants of WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD are available atAmazon.com and our network of over 1000 channel partners.

About Western Digital

Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. The company is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities of data. Western Digital® data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®, Upthere™ and WD® brands. © 2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, WD Black, WD Blue and WD Green are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. The NVMe™ mark is a registered trademark of NVM Express, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications subject to change without notice. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. As used for storage capacity, 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on operating environment. 

*As used for transfer rate, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including the expected availability, benefits, capacities, features, performance and versions of the WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD, WD Blue and WD Green SSDs. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including, among others: changes to specifications from standards organizations, volatility in global economic conditions; business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our development and introduction of products based on new technologies and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the company's most recently filed periodic report, to which your attention is directed. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.