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Corporate Headquarters
Western Digital Corporation
20511 Lake Forest Drive
Lake Forest, California 92630
949.672.7000
Locations of Manufacturing and/or
Research & Development
Fremont, California
Lake Forest, California
Mountain View, California
San Jose, California
Longmont, Colorado
Johor, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuching, Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia
Sarawak, Malaysia
Bang Pa-In, Thailand
Navanakorn, Thailand
Customer Service & Technical Support
Irvine, California
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Domestic Sales/Representative Offi ces
Healdsburg, California
Lake Forest, California
San Jose, California
Boca Raton, Florida
Seminole, Florida
Bellevue, Nebraska
Durham, North Carolina
Austin, Texas
Houston, Texas
International Sales/Representative Offi ces
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Beijing, China
Shanghai, China
Shenzhen, China
Prague, Czech Republic
Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
Munich, Germany
Wanchai, Hong Kong
New Delhi, India
Jakarta, Indonesia
Tokyo, Japan
Selangor, Malaysia
Quezon City, Philippines
Moscow, Russia
Singapore
Kangnam-Gu, South Korea
Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Investor Relations
20511 Lake Forest Drive
Lake Forest, California 92630
www.westerndigital.com/investor
[email protected]
800.695.6399
Transfer Agent and Registrar
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
59 Maiden Lane, Plaza Level
New York, New York 10038
www.amstock.com
800.937.5449
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
KPMG LLP
Stock Exchange Listing
Western Digital common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) and trades under the symbol WDC. We have also fi led with the New
York Stock Exchange the most recent annual CEO certifi cation as required by
Section 303A.12(a) of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual.
Worldwide Web Site
For current information on Western Digital, visit our Web site at
www.westerndigital.com.
Certain Forward-Looking Statements
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the
following: WD’s continued profi table growth; WD’s vertical integration and ability to scale into
fast growing markets; growth of the hard drive industry; proliferation of storage demand and
applications for hard drives; WD’s investments in technologies and infrastructure; diversifi cation
of WD’s business; WD’s competitiveness as a full-line industry leader; effi ciency and profi tability
of WD’s business; the upgrade and expansion of WD’s wafer facility in Fremont, California; and
attractiveness of and opportunities in the storage industry. These forward-looking statements are
based on WD’s current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including:
supply and demand conditions in the hard drive industry; actions by competitors; unexpected
advances in competing technologies; uncertainties related to the development and introduction
of products based on new technologies and expansion into new hard drive markets; business
conditions and growth in the various hard drive markets; pricing trends and fl uctuations in average
selling prices; changes in the availability and cost of commodity materials and specialized product
components that WD does not make internally; negative impacts of the conditions in the global
credit markets on WD’s investment portfolio; and other risks and uncertainties listed in WD’s
Form 10-K for the fi scal year ended June 27, 2008, to which your attention is directed. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of
the date hereof, and WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to
refl ect subsequent events or circumstances.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD Caviar, WD Raptor, WD VelociRaptor, WD Scorpio, My Passport,
My Book, My DVR Expander and GreenPower are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. and/or its
affi liates. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes,
and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface,
megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits
per second.
© 2008 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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