WD announces 750 GB SATA hard drives

Mumbai

August 17th, 2007

Western Digital announced it will be shipping its WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750
GB hard drive this month in the Indian market. With 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rate,
WD RE2 hard drives feature Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for high
system performance.

"WD has continued to leverage its extensive experience from previous
RAID Edition drives, to develop a hard drive suited for a variety of
high-capacity enterprise applications. These drives demand high capacity,
reliability, performance and advanced features," said Sharad Srivastava,
Sales Director, South Asia and India, Western Digital.

Addressing a growing high-capacity enterprise market, WD RE2 drives are
reliability-rated at 1.2 million hours MTTF (mean time to failure) in high duty
cycle environments. Combined with a new 750 GB capacity, this provides
enterprise-class drives with reliability and other required attributes for
demanding server and network-attached storage environments, such as file
servers, e-mail servers and Web servers. Other proven features include:
SecurePark(TM) for improved shock characteristics; StableTrac(TM) for improved
vibration performance and IntelliSeek(TM) to reduce power consumption, noise and
vibration.

WD RE2 750 GB (model WD7500AYYS) hard drives will be available on the
company's online store (http://www.westerndigital.com) and through select
distributors and resellers. Manufacturer's Suggest Retail Price (MSRP) for the
WD RE2 750 GB is Rs. 12,500.