News - Western Digital to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion

[HEXUS]

And then there were four.

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[oolon]

Oh dear one less choice of drives, I have avoided Hitachi ever since they bought IBM as i suffered from having several "Death-Star" drives, including a glass platter one. I guess I will now be avoiding WD, which is a shame as they were my second choice after seagate. Does this mean WD will also get Hitachi's san business?

[aidanjt]

Hopefully Hitachi's SAN business is their *sole* interest in it.

[kingpotnoodle]

Hopefully Hitachi's SAN business is their *sole* interest in it.

I imagine it's mostly that, a few pieces of IP & patents and some factory capacity.

Avoiding Hitachi drives because of years old problems with DeskStar drives is uncalled for, those problems are long history and Hitachi have a good enterprise level offering, and that's where reliability counts the most.

[rabbid]

Found the recent desktop drives to be pretty good.

had an old IBM 40gb that failed and a couple of earlier hitachis doa/failed with click of death though.

[CaptainCrash]

Avoiding Hitachi drives because of years old problems with DeskStar drives is uncalled for, those problems are long history and Hitachi have a good enterprise level offering, and that's where reliability counts the most.

Exactly.

It's a shame to see less choice in the marketplace, but it's almost worth it if it will finally put paid to the tired old "Deathstar" meme.