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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- G-Technology, a leading developer of innovative storage solutions engineered specifically to meet the needs of the content creation and Apple® Mac® communities today announced the grand prize winner of its "Driven Creativity" 2012 awards competition. The highly competitive awards competition - a first of its kind for G-Technology in the U.S. - drew nearly 600 submissions from professionals and amateurs across the country in short...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As developers of innovative storage solutions for those looking to push creativity beyond the limits, G-Technology is pleased to announce the category and people's choice winners of its first annual Driven Creativity Competition 2012. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56974-g-technology-driven-creativity-competition-peoples-choice-category-winners (Photo:...
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), and a leader in the mobile, desktop, high-capacity enterprise and consumer markets for hard drives today announced it is further expanding its enterprise-class storage offerings with the release of new WD RE SAS and WD RE SATA hard drives in capacities up to 4 TB, the largest on the market today. Available immediately in 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB capacities for nearline SAS and 2 TB,...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Western Digital’s newest subsidiary is faced with a problem: Though technology has been, and always will be, shrinking in size, how do hard drive makers get as much efficiency as they can from the space they’re given? Today, they’ve announced a new hard drive with a very interesting solution to this problem: Helium. HGST, or Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has said they expect to begin filling hard drives with the...
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a new helium-filled hard disk drive (HDD) platform, which is at the forefront of advanced technology for increasing capacity and significantly reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise and cloud customers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/LA73138LOGO) With products expected in 2013, the...
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), today introduced its newest version of My Passport(®) line of portable hard drives for PC and Mac with the debut of My Passport Edge(TM). The My Passport Edge and My Passport Edge for Mac(®) feature 500 GB of storage and a USB 3.0 interface for fast read/write speeds to help consumers effectively manage, share and enjoy digital content everywhere they go. Its sleek,...
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it has added the USB 3.0 interface to its line of My Passport(®) for Mac portable hard drives and increased capacity for Mac computer users up to an unmatched 2 TB. Popular among students and other Mac users who take their digital content everywhere, the My Passport for Mac with USB 3.0 allows users to quickly and conveniently take advantage of the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Flash Memory Summit 2012 (Booth #809) - HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is participating in the Flash Memory Summit 2012. As a platinum sponsor, HGST will discuss and highlight next-generation storage ecosystems, technologies and trends for cloud and enterprise IT infrastructures. WHO: HGST delivers the broadest hard disk drive (HDD)...
IRVINE, Calif., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it has appointed Kensuke Oka and Masahiro Yamamura to its board of directors, effective May 17, 2012. Mr. Oka is president and CEO of Hitachi America, Ltd., and Mr. Yamamura is corporate officer, general manager of the Semiconductor Business Division of Hitachi, Ltd. "The additions of Mr. Oka and Mr. Yamamura offer our leadership team vital insight as we operate WD and HGST as...
IRVINE, Calif., March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Viviti Technologies Ltd. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), effective Mar. 8, 2012, for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion(1). Hitachi, Ltd. now owns approximately 10 percent of WDC shares outstanding, and it has the right to designate two individuals to the board of...
