Western Digital Unveils New Solutions to Help People Capture, Preserve, Access & Share Their Ever-Growing Collections of Phot...
January 08 2018 - 09:05PM
Business Wire
At CES 2018, Western Digital Showcases
Voice-Activated Media Streaming via Smart Home Devices, the World’s
Smallest 1TB USB Flash Drive and a New Series of High-Performance
Portable SSDs
At today’s Consumer Electronics Show 2018 (CES 2018), Western
Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) unveiled new and breakthrough consumer
solutions that address today’s personal content explosion,
including voice-activated media streaming via popular Smart Home
devices, the world’s smallest 1TB USB flash drive and a portfolio
of ultra-mobile, high-performance, wireless and high-capacity flash
storage products. Sold under the SanDisk® and WD® brands, these
offerings ensure that personal experiences and memories can thrive
for years to come.
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Smartphones, drones, action cameras and virtual reality (VR)
goggles are capturing and creating rich content that users want to
access and share with friends and followers alike. Innovations in
multi-lens cameras, 8K video, 5G wireless, VR, augmented reality
(AR) and video streaming are enabling more immersive experiences.
As a result, consumers are looking for easier ways to capture,
preserve, access and share their personal content as it becomes
richer and more robust.
“Our lives are increasingly connected to and enriched by
pictures, videos, music and ideas,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice
president of product management, Client Solutions, Western Digital.
“From the parent filming a school recital on their smartphone to
the drone enthusiast or pro photographer, our range of consumer
solutions are designed to help everyone preserve, access and share
their digital world.”
At CES 2018, Western Digital is showcasing its latest solutions
for today’s data-driven consumers, including:
- New voice-activated media streaming
features via Smart Home devices. The My Cloud™ Home device empowers
people to easily capture, preserve and organize all of their
content in one central place. In a Smart Home environment, the My
Cloud Home device now works with popular devices that support
Amazon Alexa services so people can access their stored music
collection via voice commands. The My Cloud Home app now also works
with Google® Chromecast™ technology to allow people to stream their
home videos, TV shows and movies on the big screen using
Chromecast-enabled Smart TVs.†
- Continuing its legacy of technology
milestones, Western Digital offers a preview of the future of flash
storage, demonstrating the world’s smallest 1TB* USB device, a
powerful USB Type-C flash solution capable of preserving an
enormous amount of content in one tiny form factor; and the world’s
smallest 256GB* USB flash drive. The new 256GB SanDisk Ultra Fit™
USB 3.1 Flash Drive, a low-profile USB drive for people who want to
add more photos, videos, games and audio files to their notebooks,
tablets, TVs, gaming consoles and car audio systems. With 256GB,
people have the flexibility to keep more content at their
fingertips – approximately, 14,000 photos, 10 hours of full HD
video and 16,000 songs, with 64GB still available for files.**
- For avid photographers and drone
enthusiasts who require durable and high-performance media capture
solutions, Western Digital is releasing two portable SSDs. The My
Passport Wireless SSD, which features one-touch card copy to enable
editing and sharing of content out in the field, as well as a new
capability to directly access the device within third-party mobile
creative apps, like FiLMiC Pro and LumaFusion. While the new,
superfast SanDisk Extreme® Portable SSD is perfect for saving and
editing hi-res photos and videos on-the-go.
Enabling the possibilities of data, Western Digital offers the
industry’s broadest portfolio of products and solutions to help
people capture, preserve, access and transform their personal
content. For more information, visit our websites: WD and
SanDisk.
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 marketed under the
G-Technology™, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™, Upthere™ and WD®
brands.
†Smart Home app and account registration may be required. Smart
Home device compatibility may be changed, terminated or interrupted
at any time and may vary by country.
*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Actual user storage less.**Results will vary based on file size,
resolution, compression, bit rate, content, host device, pre-loaded
files and other factors. See www.sandisk.com.
© 2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, SanDisk, the SanDisk
logo, the WD logo, My Cloud, My Passport, SanDisk Extreme and
SanDisk Ultra Fit are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or
other countries. Amazon and Alexa are trademarks of Amazon.com,
Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com, Inc. does not endorse any
Western Digital product herein. Google is a registered trademark of
Google Inc. Chromecast is a trademark of Google Inc. Google Inc.
does not endorse any Western Digital product herein. All other
marks are the property of their respective owners. Product
specifications subject to change without notice.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record and
licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products.
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