New York, March 14, 2016 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Ba1 corporate family rating and a Ba1-PD probability of default rating to Western Digital Corporation ("WDC") in conjunction with the company raising $18.1 billion of new debt (of which $17.4 billion is expected to be drawn at closing) to fund the pending acquisition of SanDisk Corporation ("SanDisk") and refinance existing debt at WDC and SanDisk. As part of the rating action, Moody's assigned a Ba1 rating to WDC's proposed senior secured debt issuance and a Ba2 rating to WDC's proposed senior unsecured debt issuance. Moody's also assigned an SGL-2 rating indicating good liquidity. The outlook is stable.

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