Fujitsu to sell hard drive unit to Western Digital!

Fujitsu is in talks to sell its hard disk drive business to Western Digital, according to a Japan-based report.

Western Digital is the second-largest hard disk drive maker in the world behind Seagate Technology. Fujitsu's HDD unit is ranked sixth.

Fujitsu would sell all of its plants--including those in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines--for between 70 billion yen and 100 billion yen (approximately $660 million to $944 million), according to Japan's Nikkei news service.

This would be one of the largest business unit sell-offs for a Japanese electronics company, Nikkei said, adding that Fujitsu's hard disk drive business has been posting losses.

The deal would be finalized by the end of the year, according to Nikkei.

A Western Digital representative would not comment on the report.

Beyond the brutal price competition that is typical in the hard disk drive industry, there is a clear-and-present threat now from solid-state drives. Until this year relegated to digital camera and music player storage, solid-state drives are now making inroads--albeit small--in laptops, particularly ultraportables like the MacBook Air, Dell's new E4200 line, and Netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC.

Solid-state drive suppliers such Intel, Micron Technology, Samsung, and STEC are also beginning to target SSDs as replacements for hard disk drives in the enterprise.

Cnet

 

Wow that is big. Who owns WD and Seagate? Are they owned by the Japanese, Chinese, American etc?

Pretty soon the whole world will be owned by one company, Walmart

 

WD and Seagate are American companies.

 

I wonder if they are going to be branded Westen Digital, the company i use to work for use to buy nothing but WD HDD driver as they said they were the most reliable, so what happens now!

 

I have never been sympathetic toward Fujitsu drives. I hope more and more fast and cheap drives are available

 

It makes sense, seeing as Seagate bought Maxtor.

 

And Hitachi bought IBM.

Who bought Quantum again! , was it Maxtor!

 

I just hope Seagate would buy Toshiba.

 

bah, Fujitsu makes great enterprise drives. They are much more reliable than any Western Digital, thats for sure. WD doesnt even make enterprise drives. They just have real whimpy 10k drives which do not stand a chance against real enterprise drives.
That being said, WD may be buying Fujitsu just so they have an enterprise edition like seagate and Hitachi have had.

It doesnt matter, cause Hitachi is always number 1 in my books

The only drive I would take over a Hitachi is a DIGITAL. They were bought by Intel back in like 1988 or so. DIGITAL practically invented the harddrive, and their products were great. All of their drives were made in Germany. I have a bunch of them, and they are still running and working today. They are over 20 yrs old, and running fine.

K-TRON

 

Did I put up a sign saying that K-TRON is not allow in here because of his Hitachi favor???

Just kidding buddy... What's up

 

Toshiba will not sell out on their harddrives, and I can pretty much guarantee it.

Do you know why?
I have a hunch that TSST, or Toshiba Samsung Storage Technologies actually manufacture all of the discs used in harddrives. Thus they will never sell out.
This may not be true, but I do believe it, because all of the drive manufacturers basically come out with teh same capacity and performance drives, which is very suspicious.
I only believe Samsung makes them, because they are huge, much larger than any of the other drive manufacturers.

Hi Han

K-TRON