Hitachi to Form New Hard Drive Brand with Toshiba and Fujitsu?

malware · Jan 12, 2008

Although not confirmed by any of the firms, this story could have your attention for a moment. According to unspecified sources Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The new company would combine the hard drive divisions of Hitachi and Toshiba as well as some of the storage systems technology from Fujitsu. Each name would own a third of the newly formed venture. It's not a secret that Hitachi is not happy with its current hard drive group, so this may be the best opportunity for them to continue in the right way.

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ShadowFold · Jan 12, 2008

They still cant beat the mighty Western Digital!

jocksteeluk · Jan 12, 2008

Hitachi would have been better off starting from a fresh in the first place rather than buy IBM's failing line of deskstar hard drives and rebranding them.

Completely Bonkers · Jan 13, 2008

The IBM purchase was just an "executive cover-up", and exercise in Investment banking experience. Remember that at the top of every company there are individuals, and these individuals are interested in one or more of:

i) maintaining their job
ii) money
iii) take-over experience

QED

cdawall · Jan 13, 2008

jocksteeluk said:
Hitachi would have been better off starting from a fresh in the first place rather than buy IBM's failing line of deskstar hard drives and rebranding them.

i still have an old 45GB deskstar that has outlived 2 maxtor drives (60GB ATA133 and 40GB ATA100) they are not that bad?

jocksteeluk · Jan 13, 2008

cdawall said:
i still have an old 45GB deskstar that has outlived 2 maxtor drives (60GB ATA133 and 40GB ATA100) they are not that bad?

i have 4 dead deskstar drives, and friend has 2 dead deskstar drives, the click of doom killed them all.

.:{KC}:. · Jan 13, 2008

I have a pair of 80gb Deskstar's in Raid 0, been that way since new about a year and a half now. SATA2 3.0 gb/s Just incredible! and only 50 bucks for each drive. I backed up 48GB of Data in 29 minutes.

Wile E · Jan 13, 2008

cdawall said:
i still have an old 45GB deskstar that has outlived 2 maxtor drives (60GB ATA133 and 40GB ATA100) they are not that bad?

Outliving Maxtor doesn't say much. lol.

But seriously, I have 3 Hitachi drives that are 3+yrs old. 2 in enclosures, 1 in my G5. No problems at all.

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Hitachi to Form New Hard Drive Brand with Toshiba and Fujitsu?

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where the hell are my stars

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