Western Digital Corporation 2012 Annual Report Page 57

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Western Digital Corporation:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries

as of June 29, 2012 and July 1, 2011, and the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders' equity and
comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 29, 2012. In con-
nection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the related financial statement
schedule. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and
financial statement schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evi-
dence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the

financial position of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 29, 2012 and July 1, 2011, and the
results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 29, 2012, in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement
schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly,
in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

(United States), Western Digital Corporation's internal control over financial reporting as of June 29, 2012, based on
criteria established in Internal Control -- Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated August 17, 2012, expressed an unqualified opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

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KPMG LLP

August 17, 2012
Irvine, California