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Company Profile

WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company was found in 1970 and they produce reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. WD applies its storage expertise to consumer products for external, portable and shared storage applications. 

To enter SSD market, WD acquired Silicon Systems in March, 2009. Silicon Systems was funded in 2003 and has become a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Integration into WD begins immediately, with Silicon Systems now becoming known as the WD Solid-State Storage business unit. 

Product Features

WD solid state drives feature sophisticated storage technologies engineered to solve the industry's toughest problems: 

  • High performance and high reliability in any environment 
  • Ability to proactively forecast drive life to prevent unscheduled downtime 
  • Elimination of drive corruption from the effects of power anomalies 
  • Protection of application data and software IP 
  • Multi-year product lifecycle

These technologies enhance performance and reliability, guarantee long product life and provide the industry lowest total cost of storage ownership. If you wish to see more detailed information about WD solid state storage technology and products, please visit WD web site.