Western Digital Corp. develops, manufactures and provides data storage devices and solutions, which address the evolving needs of the information technology industry and the infrastructure that enables the proliferation of data in virtually every industry. The company product portfolio includes hard disk drives, solid-state drives marketed under the HGST, WD and G-Technology brands. It also offers mobile drives for the notebook, PC, gaming markets, serial attached small computer system interface drives, peripheral component interconnect express SSDs, home video recorders, home network storage devices, portable, desktop and personal cloud storage. The company was founded by Alvin B. Phillips in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.