106040--8/20/2008--WESTERN_DIGITAL_CORP

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Increases in areal density may outpace customers demand for storage capacity, which may lower the prices our customers are willing to pay for new products. Expanding into new hard drive markets exposes our business to different seasonal demand cycles, which in turn could adversely affect our operating results. Loss of market share with or by a key customer could harm our operating results. Some of our competitors with diversified business units outside the hard drive industry periodically sell hard drives at prices that we cannot profitably match. If we fail to maintain effective relationships with our major component suppliers, our supply of critical components may be at risk and our profitability could suffer. If components and equipment that we use are available from only a limited number of suppliers or are in short supply, it may negatively impact our production and cause us to lose revenue. If we are unable to timely and cost-effectively develop heads and media with leading technology and overall quality, our ability to sell our products may be significantly diminished, which could materially and adversely affect our business and financial results. A fundamental change in recording technology could result in significant increases in our operating expenses and could put us at a competitive disadvantage. Our head manufacturing operations include a single wafer fabrication facility in California and a single head gimbal assembly facility in Thailand, and our media operations include four facilities in Malaysia, which subjects us to substantial risk of damage or loss if operations at any of these facilities are disrupted. Terrorist attacks may adversely affect our business and operating results. Our reliance on intellectual property and other proprietary information subjects us to the risk that these key ingredients of our business could be copied by competitors. Increases in our customers credit risk could result in credit losses and an increase in our operating costs. The market price of our common stock is volatile.

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