New Personal Storage Solutions from Western Digital Put Consumers in Control of Their Digital Content
January 07 2019 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
Company Showcases New and Upcoming Super-Fast
Portable SSDs and an All-New Cloud Backup Service for USB Drives,
and Demonstrates a 4TB Portable Flash Drive Prototype
At the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 (CES® 2019), Western
Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) today unveiled several innovative
solutions, allowing consumers to capture, organize and share their
personal content with extreme speed and simplicity. In addition to
new and upcoming portable SSDs and a USB drive cloud backup
service, the company is demonstrating an ultra-high capacity flash
drive prototype – all of which put consumers in charge of their
photos, videos and files, enabling them to store more content and
access it on the go any time inspiration strikes.
“We continue to evolve our products to help consumers find new
ways of enjoying the content that matters the most,” said David
Ellis, vice president of product marketing, Western Digital. “Our
latest offerings reinforce Western Digital’s commitment to
delivering a wide range of personal storage solutions that offer
ruggedness, speed, reliability and ease of use.”
Western Digital is showcasing its latest and upcoming SanDisk®
and WD® brand offerings at CES 2019 which include:
- SanDisk Extreme PRO® Portable
SSD: SanDisk brand’s high-performing portable SSD, with
estimated availability in Spring 2019, will deliver blazing-fast
sustained performance at up to 1GB/s transfer speeds* and will seek
to deliver IP55-rated durability2; ideal for creative professionals
who want to move massive files quickly and do real-time editing
directly from the drive.
- My Passport® Go: The
latest addition to WD’s award-winning My Passport family, the My
Passport Go SSD features up to 1TB1 of portable SSD storage in a
durable, convenient form factor that includes an integrated cable
and rubber bumper. Built to travel, the My Passport Go is great for
anyone looking for SSD performance on the go.
- SanDisk Flashback™:
Available for two of SanDisk’s popular USB drives, Flashback is a
new cloud back up service that creates an online copy of USB drive
content, so consumers can easily view, search and share their files
even if their drive is lost or left at home.
- SanDisk 4TB1 USB-C™
Prototype: Continuing its legacy of technology milestones, the
company will demonstrate the world’s highest-capacity portable
flash drive. It’s a whopping 4TB1 of flash memory in an
impressively compact form factor, currently in prototype form.
Western Digital enables the possibilities of data, offering the
industry’s broadest portfolio of products and solutions to help
consumers access, share and store their personal content with
confidence. For more information, visit our websites: Western
Digital, WD and SanDisk.
* Read speeds up to 1GB/s; write speeds may be lower.
Performance may be lower depending on drive capacity, host device,
usage conditions and other factors. 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes.1
1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user storage less.2 IEC 60529
IP55: Can withstand water flow (30 kPa) at 3 min.; limited dust
contact would not interfere with operation.
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.
© 2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, SanDisk, the SanDisk
logo, WD, the WD logo, Flashback, My Passport, and SanDisk Extreme
PRO are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital
Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries.
USB-C™ is a trademark of USB Implementers Forum. All other marks
are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications
subject to change without notice. Pictures shown may vary from
actual products. Not all products are available in all regions of
the world.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record
and licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the expected availability, benefits, capabilities,
capacity, performance, speed and/or other features of the My
Passport Go SSD, SanDisk Flashback service, SanDisk Extreme PRO
Portable SSD and SanDisk 4TB flash drive prototype. 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.
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