Liliputing » solid state disks http://liliputing.com Compact Computing Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:43:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Western Digital to buy Hitachi Global Storage http://liliputing.com/2011/03/western-digital-to-buy-hitachi-global-storage.html http://liliputing.com/2011/03/western-digital-to-buy-hitachi-global-storage.html#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:00:23 +0000 Brad Linder http://liliputing.com/?p=32236 The number of top tier hard drive and solid state disk makers shrinks by one today, with the announcement that Western Digital is acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. The deal is worth about $4.3 billion, and it gives Hitachi Storage's parent company (Hitachi Ltd) a share in Western Digital and two seats on the company's boards. What does this mean...

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