Western Digital Corporation is an American data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has a decades-long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit and data memory technology developer. It is one of the world's largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, along with producing solid-state drives and flash memory devices. The company produces its data storage products for everyday users, gamers, creative professionals and small businesses up to enterprises and public clouds. Its portfolio of digital storage includes internal and external drives for desktop, mobile, photography, gaming, security, data centers and artificial intelligence. Its competitors include the data management and storage companies Seagate Technology and Micron Technology. Western Digital develops and delivers its HDDs, SSDs, memory cards, NVMe, NAS, RAID and other memory technology solutions under its Western Digital, SanDisk, SanDisk Professional, WD and WD_BLACK brands. The company holds approximately 13,000 active patents and maintains a global presence with 12+ manufacturing facilities and other operations in more than 30 countries. Wikipedia