Hitachi to sell HDD unit to Western Digital

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to
U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei
reported Monday."

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On 03/07/11 09:28 pm, Franc Zabkar wrote:

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to
U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei
reported Monday."

So why does WD want those Hitachi "DeathStar" (formerly IBM and
optimistically named "DeskStar") drives?

All the dead hard disks I have here are WD. The Seagates are all fine.

Perce

Percival P. Cassidy wrote
Franc Zabkar wrote

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4
billion, the Nikkei reported Monday."

So why does WD want those Hitachi "DeathStar" (formerly IBM and
optimistically named "DeskStar") drives?

They dont. They do however want to eliminate one of the hard drive manufacturers.

All the dead hard disks I have here are WD. The Seagates are all fine.

That isnt the case with plenty of others.

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 03/07/11 09:28 pm, Franc Zabkar wrote:

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to
U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei
reported Monday."

So why does WD want those Hitachi "DeathStar" (formerly IBM and
optimistically named "DeskStar") drives?

Hitachi is currently the most reliable brand.

All the dead hard disks I have here are WD. The Seagates are all fine.

WD is ok, Seagate is just trash, especially the drives
"Made in China". All at this time. This
changes whenever a manufacturer screws up. The only
one that has not screwed up with regard to reliability
so far is Samsung.

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Hope WD keeps Hitachi's 5 platter drives. It takes WD/Seagate forever to
get their 4 platter drives to 7200RPM.

"Rod Speed" commented:
Percival P. Cassidy wrote
Franc Zabkar wrote

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business
to U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion,
the Nikkei reported Monday."

So why does WD want those Hitachi "DeathStar" (formerly IBM and
optimistically named "DeskStar") drives?

They dont. They do, however, want to eliminate one of the hard drive
manufacturers.

[......]


It sounded like good strategy to investors, as well - WDC stock
shot up 17% yesterday, which was otherwise a down day in the
stock market. Today, it's up another 2.7%

*TimDaniels*

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to
U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei
reported Monday."

Sad to hear that. Maybe the age of CHEAP SSD is coming soon!

My next spinning hard disk purchase would require some guessing...

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So why does WD want those Hitachi "DeathStar" (formerly IBM and
optimistically named "DeskStar") drives?

That's no longer an issue after IBM dumped the glass platters!

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"Man-wai Chang" wrote:
"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to
U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei
reported Monday."

Sad to hear that. Maybe the age of CHEAP SSD is coming soon!


I think Hitachi sees making SSDs as a business with more future and
more profit than making spinning disks, and Western Digital may be getting
into serving the legacy market.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels wrote
Man-wai Chang wrote

"Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around
$4 billion, the Nikkei reported Monday."

Sad to hear that. Maybe the age of CHEAP SSD is coming soon!

I think Hitachi sees making SSDs as a business with more future and more profit than making spinning disks, and
Western Digital may be getting into serving the legacy market.

It wont be a legacy market any time soon.