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Western Digital completes Hitachi buy out
The thinning out of the HD herd has finished today with Western Digital announcing it has snapped up Hitachi Global Storage Technology to the tune of $3.9bn and 25 million shares of Western Digital Corporation stock, worth another $0.9 billion. -
Western Digital strangely unworried by SSDs
CeBit 2012Western Digital reckons that the hype around Ultrabooks is unlikely to hurt its HDD business any time soon. -
FTC sticks spanner into Hitachi Global Storage buy
The US FTC is going to force Western Digital to sell off assets if it wants to buy Hitachi Global Storage. -
HDD business to become Mexican standoff
AnalysisThe HDD business will soon become a three-way shoot-out, with only Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba to provide mechanical storage media for our storage hunger. -
HDD supply trouble continues into 2012
Western Digital and Toshiba, two of the HDD companies worst hit by the flooding, have both looked to bolster production away from Thailand. -
Seagate and Western Digital cut back on HDD warranties
The days of thinking that your hard drive will last at least five years is over with Seagate and Western Digitalcutting back on hard drive warranties. -
Thai flood HDD undersupply leads to oversupply
Companies like Seagate and Western Digital had been rushing to fix their operations in Thailand, while other manufacturers ramped up production outside of the region to compensate. IHS says the hurry to get the show back on the road could, ironically, damage the industry further. -
HDD makers plug Thai flood supply gap - a bit
Hard drive giants Seagate and Western Digital are doing their best to see off the supply shortage following the floods in Thailand, but shipments still won't meet demand in Q1 2012. -
Western Digital's head almost above water post Thai floods
Western Digital reckons its revenues will hit $1.8 billion in December, up from between $1.05 billion and $1.25 billion back in October. Seagateindicated that it too had been recovering from the floods. -
IT industry plagued with crocodiles
It was lucky. Canon was devastated as were some other key electronics plants. More than half of global hard drives and houses top hard-drive makers Western Digital, Seagate Technology and Toshiba were damaged. -
Seagate predicts 12 month hard drive famine
Bloomberg says drive prices have already risen by 20 percent and Western Digital and Toshiba are in trouble too. It puts Luczo and his company in a good position because he can place his customers on allocation and put the prices up. -
X79 motherboards badly hit by Thai floods
The floods are severely affecting plenty of companies in the technology markets, with firms like Western Digital finding their factories literally underwater. -
Prices of hard drives continue to soar
Thailand is the world’s centre for hard disk and hard disk component manufacturing, and major firms such as Western Digital have been ravaged by the recent floods. -
Notebook prices rise as Thai floods damage industry
As we reported earlier this month, Western Digital has had to shut down its Thai plants - not as a direct result of the flooding but because component manufacturers have been hit hard by the situation. -
Thai floods continue to wreak havoc
Heavy seasonal rain has lead to flooding in factories, causing companies to rethink their supply or shut down operations altogether. Western Digital, for example, has a couple of factories literally underwater - causing a knock-on effect to other firms which rely on it as a supplier. -
Thailand flooding wreaks havoc on supply chain
Hard disk drive manufacturer and supplier to Pace Western Digital has suspended its production at its manufacturing facilities in Thailand. The British firm had already taken a beating following the the Japanese earthquake earlier this year, when its shares dropped to the tune of 40 percent. -
Thai floods disrupt HDD industry
Major players like Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi GST and Toshiba have factories set up in Thailand. -
Hard drive shipments stagnate in Q3
Distributors earlier this year blamed hot-shots such as Western Digital for dragging their heels on supply, all to keep prices where they want them. A distributor familiar with the situation said at the time, "because of the earthquake, this has all gone wrong and left our customers behind as we can
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