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WD Starts on SSD trip, ends up buying Hitachi

Posted March 7, 2011 - 8:49 pm

While analysts were absorbing news that WD plans hybrid drives, it went and bought Hitachi for $4.3 billion, instantly outweighing rival Seagate.
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Western Digital to buy Hitachi's disk storage division for $4.3B

Posted March 7, 2011 - 12:32 pm

Western Digital announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Hitachi's hard drive subsidiary in a cash and stock deal valued at $4.3 billion.
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Hard drive manufacturers embrace new storage tech

Posted October 5, 2010 - 7:55 pm

In a reflection of the hard-fought battle among hard drive makers to get ahead of rivals, Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital this week talked up storage innovations, including a Hitachi drive that combines an optical platter with Micron's densest NAND flash memory and advanced hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate that hold up to 3TB of data.
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Western Digital launches line of embedded SSDs

Posted June 16, 2009 - 3:00 pm

Western Digital Corp. today announced that it has begun shipping its first solid-state line of disk drives based on technology it acquired in March when it bought SiliconSystems Inc. The drives are targeted at embedded systems for business use, not the consumer market.
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Western Digital releases monster 4TB hard drive

Posted June 10, 2009 - 9:25 am

Western Digital Corp. today released its biggest consumer external hard-disk drive targeted at Mac users with a whopping 4TB of capacity.
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Western Digital Announces 2TB “Green” Hard Drives

Posted April 20, 2009 - 4:33 pm

I didn't really notice when the first 2TB (TeraByte, which is 1,000 GigaByte) drives started shipping In January this year. I knew they were coming because I had seen 1.5TB drives, but I just missed the hoopla, if there was any.
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Western Digital pays $65M for solid state drive maker

Posted March 30, 2009 - 11:17 am

Western Digital Corp. Monday announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a small, Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based maker of solid-state drives.
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Three Western Digital drives hit top speeds

Posted July 31, 2008 - 2:48 pm

Recently, Western Digital Corp. has come to market with three drives aimed at increasing the performance of both 2.5- and 3.5-in. drives: the Caviar Black, the Scorpio Black and the VelociRaptor. Nothing about them speaks to "green power." Rather, the "black" lineup is aimed at enthusiasts who want performance and let their power supplies be damned if they can't handle the load.
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