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IRVINE, Calif., – Oct. 6, 2011– Western Digital®(NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storagesolutions and maker of the popular WD TV®media player family, today introduced the next generation of its WD TV®Live™ streaming media player, an easy to use Wi-Fi® enabledmedia player that is the first in its category to deliver the Spotify® music service.

WD TVLive features WD’s newest intuitive user interface that delivers thelatest hit movies, TV shows, music and online services from companies likeNetflix®, Hulu Plus™ and Blockbuster® directly toyour TV. The new streaming media player connects to the Internet wirelessly orthrough an Ethernet connection, with the high performance 802.11n wireless connectivitysupporting Full-HD 1080p video resolution.

Inaddition to premium Internet content, WD TV Live allows users to enjoy personalmedia such as photos, video and music on their home entertainment systems bysupporting a wide range of file formats for streaming content from anyconnected USB drive, digital camcorder or camera, network drive such as the My Book®Live™ personal cloud storage, and any networked PC or Mac®computer in the home.

Addingto the WD TV family’s current content offerings from Netflix, Hulu Plus,Blockbuster, CinemaNow®, Pandora®, YouTube™,Facebook® and many others, WD TV Live and WD TV® Live Hub™are the first streaming media players to deliver Spotify’s acclaimedmusic service. Premium Spotify subscribers can now enjoy unlimited on-demandaccess to Spotify’s catalog of over 15 million songs in excellent soundquality (available in up to 320kbps) on their home entertainment system.

WDincorporates Spotify’s popular features in the new service, including theability to create and manage Spotify playlists, share songs to Spotify friends,and see and subscribe to friends’ playlists via their Spotify profiles.Users can also share tracks by sending songs directly to other Spotifyusers’ inbox. Spotify for WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub delivers anexciting new way to enjoy and share music on the best sound system in yourhome.

“WDis committed to providing our customers with a premium entertainment experiencethat includes seamless streaming of personal media and the best of the Internetdirectly to the highest quality screen and sound system in the home,”said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager for WD’sBranded Products and Consumer Electronics groups. “By marrying advancedfeatures of the new wireless WD TV Live with quality content from serviceproviders, including a first of its kind service with Spotify, we are excitedto deliver on that commitment.”

Pascalde Mul, Global Head of Hardware Partnerships, Spotify, commented:"We're really excited to make further steps into the living room with thestreaming media players from Western Digital, which from today offer the fullSpotify streaming catalog in a truly innovative TV-focused userexperience."

Inaddition to Spotify and WD’s current content offerings, WDTV Live and WD TV Live Hub will also now include the Dailymotion video service. The applicationoffers quality video content from users, independent content creators andpremium partners, including high-quality and HD video.

Price and Availability

The new WD TV Live streaming mediaplayer can be purchased at select retailers worldwide and online atwdstore.com. MSRP for the WD TV Live streaming media player is $99.99 USD. Spotifyis now available on the new WD TV Live players, as well as the WD TV Live Hubstreaming media player, which features a built-in 1 TB hard drive to storepersonal content locally for TV streaming. The Spotify service is available ineight countries: USA, UK, Sweden,Finland, Norway, France,the Netherlands and Spain.

About WD
WD, one of thestorage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products andservices for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digitalinformation. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance harddrives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure fromloss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client andenterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as itsown consumer storage and home entertainment products.

WD was founded in 1970. Thecompany'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 website (www.westerndigital.com)to access a variety of financial and investor information.

AboutSpotify
Spotify is an award-winning digital music service that givesyou on-demand access to over 15 million tracks. Our dream is to make all theworld’s music available instantly to everyone, wherever and whenever theywant it. Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share musicwith your friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal. Spotify isavailable in eight countries: USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, TheNetherlands and Spain, with more than 10 million registered users, and over 2 millionpaying subscribers.