Last week Hitachi GST said that it had shipped 25 million 7-mm thick 2.5-inch HDDs. The company also announced a second generation 7,200 RPM, 7-mm drive with 500 GB storage capacity on a single disk and supporting a 6 Gb/s SATA interface and a 32 MB cache memory on the drive. The Travelstar Z7K500 is geared to notebook computer manufacturers, particularly those s26393-e010-v214 building ultrabooks where the 7-mm HDD height is needed to fit into the slim form factor of these computers. This high capacity storage device could help push the Ultrabook market into high gear.
The Hitachi announcement represents the latest in a long series of innovations by Hitachi GST as well as the earlier HDD activities from IBM and Hitachi. IBM and Hitachi merged their HDD operations into Hitachi GST in 2003. IBM was the VGP-BPS19 inventor of the RAMAC, the first computer system to use a HDD, which was introduced in 1956 and for many years IBM HDD technology development led the industry, including the s26393-e010-v214-01-0747 introduction of MR heads, GMR heads and anitiferromagnetic coupled recording media. Recently Hitachi GST announced its first enterprise SSDs through a partnership with Intel. Hitachi was also an early manufacturer of HDDs and one of the leading innovators and providers of storage in Japan and elsewhere.
Last year’s announcement of a merger of Hitachi GST into Western Digital will likely come to pass before the end of March 2012. A European Union commission made a condition of the merger be the squ-914 sale of an Hitachi 3.5-inch HDD production facility in China. Toshiba, one of the remaining HDD companies has announced that they will close their Thailand HDD manufacturing facility and relocate production to the cqb904 Philippines and China. Toshiba, perhaps in association with TDK/SAE is also a likely buyer of the lg t280 battery Hitachi GST 3.5-inch drive plant in China. If this comes about before the end of March 2012, as now seems likely, the Western Digital acquisition of Hitachi GST from Hitachi could be completed by the same deadline.
It may be too early to write an obituary for Hitachi GST but it seems likely that calendar Q1 2012 may be the last quarter for a company that has roots stretching back to the beginning of the digital storage industry and the first hard disk drives. The cqb901 company continues to introduce new technology and products needed by the lg a520n battery industry and if the merger finally comes to pass we hope that the employees from Hitachi GST will continue to contribute to the growth of storage technology and that Western Digital will sustain the best that the innovators at Hitachi GST can offer.
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