WD Unifies its Professional Content Creator Storage Portfolio Under the G-DRIVE® Brand

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 19, 2026--

WD (Nasdaq: WDC) today announced the re-launch of its G-DRIVE® brand as the unified identity for its content creator and creative professional external storage product portfolio. The brand consolidation brings together high-capacity, high-performance storage solutions under a single name brand – G-DRIVE® – known for its quality, performance, and reliability.

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The G-DRIVE® brand, also represented by the iconic “G” logo, will replace SanDisk Professional branding across WD’s creator storage lineup, including desktop drives, portable drives and multi-bay RAID systems purpose-built for the creative community's most demanding workflows: high-resolution photography, video production, graphic design, and audio engineering. Supporting individuals, businesses and production studios, G-DRIVE® solutions support the full creative lifecycle, from on-set capture and real-time editing to backup and postproduction. Products currently branded as SanDisk Professional will transition to the G-DRIVE® brand by the end of this month.

"G-DRIVE has become synonymous with reliable, high-capacity, high-performance storage for all creatives and all stages, from enthusiast to professional," said Darrin Bulik, director of product management at WD. "By consolidating our content creator storage portfolio under this established and trusted brand, we’re honoring that legacy while leveraging WD’s industry-leading storage innovations to deliver the tools creators need to bring their vision to life. This commitment means more product choices now, and in the future, backed by the quality and reliability that creators depend on.”

The initial G-DRIVE® product lineup includes:

Existing SanDisk Professional HDD-based products will continue to receive full support and warranty coverage by WD. Products with new G-DRIVE® branding have already begun shipping.

The brand transition follows Western Digital's separation into a standalone HDD company in late February 2025. WD will also continue offering HDD products in its color portfolio including WD Gold® for enterprise, WD Purple® for smart video, WD Red® for NAS, WD Blue® for PC productivity, and WD_BLACK® for gaming.

About WD

WD builds the storage infrastructure that powers the AI-driven data economy. For more than 55 years, WD has been at the forefront of innovation, delivering the scale, reliability, and economics required to turn data into intelligence. Today, WD partners with the world’s leading hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises to provide durable, innovative storage platforms that are proven and trusted at scale. All of this is driven by its people, whose engineering discipline and customer focus help organizations store, protect, and use the world’s data with confidence. Follow WD on LinkedIn and learn more at www.wd.com.

*One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may vary depending on the operating environment.

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WD re-launches the G-DRIVE® brand.

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