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Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division
- In April, Seagate agreed to purchase Samsung's hard drive division in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. Technically speaking, the acquisition is complete and Seagate has launched a web page dedicated to the purchase for customers. Logistically speaking though, the…
Seagate and Western Digital announce reduced warranties for hard drives
- Seagate and Western Digital have both announced that they are slashing warranty coverage on many of their consumer-grade hard drives. Seagate drives are taking the hardest hit with the company shaving as much as four years off select drives.
Western Digital partially restores Thailand operations
- Western Digital has partially restored production at one of its HDD manufacturing plants in Thailand one week ahead of schedule, according to a press release issued yesterday. The company also raised its revenue outlook for the current quarter as a…
Western Digital cleared to buy Hitachi GST, with conditions
- Western Digital has been cleared by the European Commission to acquire Hitachi's hard drive business in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. The deal, announced roughly eight months ago, should leave Western Digital with about 50%…
Arbitrator: Western Digital must pay Seagate $525 million
- An arbitrator has ordered Western Digital to pay Seagate a hefty $525 million in damages this week. The feuding drive manufacturers sought private arbitration in Minnesota after Seagate accused Western Digital of coaxing "confidential information and trade secrets" from a…
Seagate: Hard drive supplies could be affected through late 2012
- If you were hoping to stock up on cheap storage this holiday shopping season, you might be disappointed. Not only could the recent flooding in Thailand slow hard drive shipments through the fourth quarter of this year, supplies could be…
Flooding causes spike in HDD prices, Asus might run out this month
- The catastrophic flooding in Thailand is expected to cause a drastic shortage of hard drives according to researchers at iSuppli. Some 660,000 Thailand residents are reportedly out of work after the country shuttered 14,000 factories, including facilities that produce hard…
Western Digital unveils $100 nettop with Spotify support
- Western Digital has revamped its media player offering this week, serving up a new budget streaming box for home theater buffs. The company's latest WD TV Live nettop box is priced at only $100 and has a slightly different feature…
WD's Scorpio Blue 1 TB notebook hard drive gets benchmarked
- Western Digital’s new 1 TB Scorpio Blue 9.5mm, 2.5-inch mobile hard drive which launched less than two weeks ago has already been analyzed and benchmarked by the crew over at Hot Hardware. The high capacity notebook drive was pitted against…
Western Digital ships first 2.5-inch 1 TB hard drive
- Storage giant Western Digital has announced that they have started volume shipments of their WD Scorpio Blue 9.5mm, 2.5-inch mobile hard drive in a 1 TB capacity. The drive, which conforms to the industry standard 9.5mm form factor, features two…
EU begins investigating Seagate's and Western Digital's HDD acquisitions
- EU regulators opened in-depth probes today into two takeover bids in the hard disk drive market involving two Asian and two US companies: Western Digital buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) and Seagate buying Samsung Electronics' HDD unit. The EU…
Western Digital adds 6TB My Book Studio Edition II
- Western Digital introduced a My Book Studio Edition II with 3TB drives for professionals who deal with hefty video and photo files. The WDH2Q60000 offers up to 6TB of space courtesy of two 3TB Caviar Green drives, which can be…
Western Digital to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion
- Western Digital has just announced an agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock deal valued at about $4.3 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Japan's Hitachi will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive…
Western Digital outships Seagate in 2010
- Western Digital stripped Seagate of its leading spot in the hard drive market during the first quarter of 2010 and the company maintained that lead throughout the year. According to Information Network, total hard drive shipments grew 17.1% to 653.5…
Rumor: Seagate rejected Western Digital takeover bid
- In October, Seagate reportedly rejected a takeover bid from rival Western Digital. If the proposition had gone through, it would have resulted in another huge hardware company. Western Digital was willing to offer as much as 10 to 50 percent…
Western Digital outs 1TB set-top box for $200
- Western Digital has launched its latest media-streaming device, the WD TV Live Hub. The set-top box offers 1TB of storage as well as support for full 1080p HD playback in popular formats such as MPEG4, Xvid, MKV, H.264 and MOV.…
Western Digital launches 3TB Caviar Green hard drive
- Two weeks after announcing its 3TB My Book Essential external storage drive, Western Digital has launched the first bootable 3TB desktop HDD. The WD30EZRSDTL is the latest in Western Digital's Caviar Green line and features four 750GB platters pancaked into…
Western Digital matches Seagate with 3TB external HDD
- Western Digital today announced an update to its lineup external hard drives: the My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE and My Book Essential. The smallest drive in the lot, the My Passport Essential, offers 500GB of storage in a…
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