Sydney, Australia – 1 November 2012 – Just in time for the start of the new semester, WD® opens its online store for university students and staff and rewards them for their hard academic work with a special discount of 20 percent on all products. Students and staff only have to register once with their university e-mail address at www.wdeducationprogram.com/au or www.wdstudentstore.com/au to get full access to an array of WD products and devices at discounted prices at the WD Store.
With the help of WD products, student life gets simpler – from backing up important homework or even a thesis, to making it possible to remotely access all their data using a laptop or a smartphone and share it with study buddies. If a temporary distraction from schoolwork is needed, the WD TV® family of products will take care of the entertainment, streaming videos, music, photos and content from the internet to the big screen in the shared flat.
WD’s Highlights for Students
The personal cloud solutions My Book® Live™ and My Book Live Duo are true multi-talents. Not only wirelessly backup numerous computers or laptops on a network (Mac® & PC), they can also be accessed remotely via the Internet or WD’s mobile apps WD 2go™ and WD Photos™ on smartphones and tablets. Both are essential tools for academics – nothing is worse than losing your thesis file due to a computer crash, destroying months or years of work. These drives can also stream music, videos and photos to other devices.
The WD TV® Live™ is the new entertainer in your student apartment. Playing back pretty much any file format that exists and streaming content from YouTube™, Spotify®, Facebook® and other services, the WD TV Live will step in, when studying moral reaches a low.
WD’s bestsellers, the My Passport® and My Passport for Mac, are ideal to carry huge amounts of data (up to 2 TB) comfortably with you, like your “coffee to go”, but with the advantage of it fitting nicely in your bag without the risk of ugly spills.
Last but not least, the new My Net™ dualband routers are perfect for accelerating video streaming, using Skype, gaming and other critical Internet activities in a shared flat that is crowded with connected laptops, smartphones, tablets and other network devices.
More information on these and other WD products is available at www.wdc.com or directly at the WD Store.
About WD
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 website at www.wd.com.
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., 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 website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.