WD to Participate in Investor Event

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WD to Participate in Investor Event

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it will participate in the following investor event:

Event: Needham & Company's Fourth Annual HDD & Memory Conference
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Keynote: 9:15AM Pacific/12:15PM Eastern
Presentation: 12:30PM Pacific/3:30PM Eastern

The live and archived webcasts of these events will be available on the Presentations page in the Investor Relations section of WD's Web site at www.wdc.com/investor.

About WD

WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (http://www.westerndigital.com/) to access a variety of financial and investor information.