Bangkok--29 Aug--Pr Plus Two
Western Digital?, a leader in digital storage solutions, continues its unit leadership position in the hard drive market in shipment of 54 million hard drives in the fourth quarter ended July 1, 2011. For fiscal year 2011, the company posted revenue of US$9.53 billion and net income of US$726 million, and hard disk drive unit shipments of 206.5 million units. The industry saw unit volume growth of four percent while WD achieved growth of six percent as customers demonstrated a continued preference for the WD value proposition.
"In the June quarter, we were able to meet stronger than anticipated demand, especially from our OEM customers," said Margaret Koh, WD Sales Director, Asia South. "We believe the stronger demand was driven by increased use of sea freight in advance of the second half of the calendar year as well as supply continuity concerns in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake. We remain focused on efficiently producing reliable, high-quality drives for growing worldwide markets to provide exceptional value to our customers.”
WD continues offering a broadening portfolio of compelling solutions including networking and home entertainment products, solid state drives, and the world’s best selling internal and external hard drives.
WD Caviar? Blue?, WD Caviar? Green? and WD Caviar? Black? internal hard drives are designed to help consumers make better informed choices in selecting their digital storage solutions. WD Caviar Blue hard drives represent desktop performance and reliability and is ideal for everyday user or business computing. WD Caviar Green drives, with a massive 3 TB capacity, offer significant power saving and is ideal for environmentally friendly PCs and external storage applications requiring lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation. WD Caviar Black drives represent maximum desktop performance, is ideal for power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, as well as extreme gaming computers.
For mobile users who need maximum capacity, WD recently announced shipment of WD Scorpio? Blue? mobile hard drive with 1 TB capacity. Designed for mainstream notebook computers, the new WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB hard drive utilizes 500 GB-per-platter areal density and is now available in the highest capacity for 2.5-inch hard drives in the industry-standard 9.5 mm, two-platter (2-disk) form factor. WD Scorpio Blue mobile hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data, also achieves excellent power and performance, making it an ideal solution for notebook computers and other portable devices that require extended battery life and cool, ultra quiet operation.
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