WD adds excitement at rAge 2014 with international gaming professional, Snoopeh

Issued by Evolution PR for Western Digital
Johannesburg, 27 Oct 2014

The rAge Expo, an annual three-day gaming event held at the Coca-Cola Dome from 10 to 12 October 2014, was a great success, and saw local gamers come together from all over the country.

Over the course of a single weekend, tens of thousands of visitors gather to soak up the latest in gadgets, hard drives, gaming PCs and notebooks and games. In its 12th year, the expo has quickly become southern Africa's biggest gaming event - one that WD always looks forward to.

This year, WD provided a great source of excitement by bringing out gaming professional player Stephen Ellis, also known as Snoopeh, famous for his exploits on the League of Legends team Evil Geniuses. WD gave fans the opportunity to meet, greet and interact with Ellis, and even join him for interactive LAN sessions. Fans were also able to hear him speak about WD's products for gamers and the WD-sponsored Black Monster Cup tournament, a League of Legends tournament.

Says Kalvin Subbadu, Sales Manager for Components at WD South Africa: "We hosted a tournament each day over the course of the event and gave away a WD Black drive each day to the winner. The event was a great success and we were glad to be part of this prestigious gaming convention."

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.wd.com.

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, California, is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

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