Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Western Digital buys division of Hitachi hard drives

Hard drives are one of the technology sectors that have accused more concentration of business in recent years. In 2005, the acquisition of Maxtor by Seagate and ended with one of the favorite debates fans to tinker with the PC on which company was best units. Western Digital is now the division has bought the Hitachi hard drives (known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies or Hitachi GST) by the beautiful figure of 43,000 million dollars.

The new company headquarters remains in California and no change in its board. The operation ends as a trademark of Hitachi hard drives. So far it is unknown whether Western Digital adopt all or part of Hitachi technology, combines it with your own or create multiple lines of business based on the type of unit.

The only certainty is that, except minor marks, only three major manufacturers of hard drives in the world: Western Digital, Samsung and Seagate, few hands to a very large market. Vía | Akihabara News

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