Being ABVB old I remember that all this Deskstar/Ultrastar business used to be IBM's until Hitachi acquired it. ;-)
Marcel
After WD acquired Hitachi's drive business, they retained the right to use the Hitachi brand name, as in their "HGST" hard drives.
But WD sold to Toshiba the Hitachi technology for 3.5" hard drives, including Hitachi's patent rights and their hard drive factories:
I've been buying Toshiba hard drives since 2014 and haven't been burned yet! They have been cheaper than HGST drives but very reliable.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:15 PM John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Good lord. I'm just a fountain of wrong info tonight.
Toshiba only acquired part of the Hitachi drive business. WD retained the HGST line. according to this, they phased out the HGST branding in 2018.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:44 PM John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:
Apologies, WD did not buy Seagate. Lost my mind for a minute. The rest is true, though.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:38 PM John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:
WD bought Hitachi and Seagate, however they were forced to sell off the Hitachi hard drive business to Toshiba to satisfy regulators who were unhappy with them having a monopoly on hard drive manufacturing. This happened more than 5 years ago. Maybe Toshiba is finally phasing out the Hitachi name. Not sure.
Does this mean that Toshiba has EOL'd the Hitachi Deskstar line or have the put their name on it? Originally I heard WD bought Hitachi. Now it sounds like Toshiba bought Hitachi from WD. Am I following this correct?
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <pale.edit@...> wrote :
Toshiba acquired the Hitachi drive production from WD
It seems Western Digital has EOL's the Hitachi Deskstar drives. I see they are no longer at Fry's and prices on internet are through the roof. I've google and it seems they don't list them as products on the Western Digital site.
What is the logical replacement for my long time friend the Hitachi Deskstar 4TB or 6TB?
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