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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors
Western Digital Corporation:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as
of June 27, 2008 and June 29, 2007, and the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and
comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 27, 2008. In connection
with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the related financial statement schedule.
These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial
statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 27, 2008 and June 29, 2007, and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 27, 2008, in conformity
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when
considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material
respects, the information set forth therein.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of June 27,
2008, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated August 20, 2008 expressed an unqualified
opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
August 20, 2008
Costa Mesa, California
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