About Adaptec

Adaptec provides Trusted Storage Solutions that help businesses of all sizes move, manage and protect their data.

Adaptec believes that companies of all sizes should have access to simple, cost-effective storage technology that makes it easy to protect business data and provides instant access to that data whenever and wherever it's needed. Adaptec also believes in a pay-as-you-grow model that allows customers to incrementally evolve storage solutions to new technologies, larger capacities, and value-added software functionality as business needs change.

Adaptec has a 24-year track record of success built on the ability to simplify the latest storage technologies, making them affordable and accessible to the widest range of businesses, through solutions that combine hardware and software.

Today, Adaptec provides one of the industry's broadest storage solution suites, from chips to internal host bus adapters and RAID controllers to external storage area networks (SAN), Ethernet-based iSCSI SAN (IP SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and the software that extends storage functionality and value.

About West Coast Engineering

For over 23 years, West Coast Engineering (WCE) has been supplying electronics to OEMs, CEMs and distributors worldwide. Located in Hawthorne California, near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), West Coast Engineering has established itself as a premier independent distributor specializing in providing electronic components for the military, aeronautical, medical, automotive and commercial manufacturing industries. Adaptec is one of the hundreds of manufacturers that WCE carries on its linecard.

WCE has the techology and resources to handle any size transaction, no matter how big or small.

Quick Facts

• Founded: 1984
• Headquarters: Hawthorne, CA
• Other Locations: Futain, Shenzhen ▪ China PRC ▪ Brazil

West Coast Engineering is committed to providing the highest quality service to customers with its large diverse inventory stocked in its ISO9001:2000 and ESD compliant 70,000 sq. ft. warehouse. Year after year, West Coast Engineering has been considered a top independent distributor because of its principled reputation built on longstanding relationships with a dedicated customer base.

WCE's strategies differ from any other independent distributors. Listed below are some of the added measures that WCE takes to make sure that OEMs, CEMs and distributors have peace of mind when placing orders for electornic components, selling excess inventory, forming strategic alliances, and purchasing RoHS or
non-RoHS parts.