HGST
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| founding | 2003 as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Ltd. |
| Seat | San José / California |
| Number of employees | 45,000 |
| Branch | Hard drive manufacturer |
| Website | www.hgst.com |
HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Ltd. ) is a subsidiary of Western Digital based in San José / California . The company employs 45,000 people worldwide.
history
The Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Ltd. (HGST for short) was created on January 1, 2003 from the merger of the hard drive division taken over from IBM (also based in San José) and the existing hard drive division of Hitachi , which exclusively manufactured 2.5 "notebook hard drives . The takeover closed all model series ( e.g. Deskstar , Travelstar , Ultrastar , Microdrive ), the development department, the manufacturing facilities and all patents. This created the third largest hard disk manufacturer in the world. There was also an extensive patent exchange agreement between HGST and ExcelStor Technology for desktop hard disks.
On March 7, 2011, Western Digital (WDC) announced its intention to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $ 4.3 billion. This acquisition was finally completed on March 8, 2012. Since then, the company has operated under the name HGST as a subsidiary of Western Digital. In May 2012, WDC sold parts of HGST's 3.5 "production to Toshiba under pressure from the antitrust authorities .
In 2014, HGST introduced the first 10 TB hard drive. The high capacity is achieved through helium filling and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). At the end of 2015, a 10 TB hard drive was presented that uses conventional Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) as well as helium filling.
Products
HGST offers internal and external hard drives in 2.5 "and 3.5" form factors as well as SSDs .
Manufacturing facilities
HGST has production facilities all over the world and was the first large company to have hard drives manufactured in the People's Republic of China (by ExcelStor Technology ) or to manufacture them itself in the meantime.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Western Digital acquires Hitachi GST for $ 4.3 billion , MacTechNews on March 7, 2011
- ^ Hitachi Completes Transfer of Hard Disk Drive Business to Western Digital
- ↑ WD Completes Acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Creates the Industry's Deepest Technology Capability and Broadest Product Portfolio ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sam Byford: Western Digital completes $ 4.8b Hitachi GST buyout, becomes world's largest HDD manufacturer . theverge.com. March 9, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
- ↑ WD Reaches Agreement with Toshiba Corporation to Divest Certain 3.5-Inch HDD Assets ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ciw: Helium-filled hard drives with 8 and 10 terabytes of capacity. heise, September 10, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Helium hard drive with 10 TByte. heise, December 2, 2015, accessed on December 3, 2015 .
Web links
- Official website of HGST
- Old Hitachi Global Storage Technologies website ( March 5, 2011 memento on Internet Archive )