Western Digital to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

[IdOp]

Originally Posted by AP

Western Digital Corp., the world's largest maker of hard drives, said on Monday that it is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the third largest, for $4.3-billion (U.S.) in cash and stock.

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Seagate Technology PLC is the second-largest maker of hard drives. Together, Western Digital and Hitachi will be nearly twice as large as Seagate, by number of units shipped, according to research firm iSuppli.

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[TerryP]

And didn't Hitachi buy up IBMs hard drive stuff some years ago? I seem to remember something about a death star.

[IdOp]

Originally Posted by TerryP

And didn't Hitachi buy up IBMs hard drive stuff some years ago?

Yup; the article mentions that was in 2002.

I seem to remember something about a death star.

Lol, that must have been my IBM hard drive, but I didn't know it was so famous. It began to die under warranty, and I got it replaced by Hitachi. They did a first-class job with that, and I'm still using the replacement Hitachi drive today.

[Beastie]

I still have an HGST Deskstar 7K80 from 2006.