![]() ![]() Products Hard drives and solid-state drives In 2018, Western Digital announced that it was phasing out its HGST brand and that all of its remaining product lines (particularly Ultrastar) will henceforth be marketed as brands of Western Digital. Since then, first WD-branded products left HGST's plant at 304 Industrial Park in Prachinburi Province, Thailand in reverse, certain HGST-branded products became produced at Western Digital's plants in Bang Pa-in District, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand and Penang, Malaysia. WD was required to maintain the HGST brand and sale team for at least two more years. In October 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued a decision allowing Western Digital to begin integrating HGST into its main business. In September 2014, the company announced a 10 TB helium drive, which uses shingled magnetic recording to improve density. In November 2013, HGST announced a 6 TB capacity drive filled with helium. ![]() Īs part of the deal, Western Digital agreed to trade assets with Toshiba, with Toshiba receiving assets for the production of 3.5-inch hard drives (1, 2 and 3-platter drives produced in Shenzhen, China), in exchange for a Toshiba factory in Thailand for producing 2.5-inch drives (which had been inactive since the 2011 floods). As a result, HGST continued to operate independently with its own product lines and product development. Citing antitrust concerns, China's Ministry of Commerce required HGST to operate autonomously from Western Digital, restricting outright integration between the companies' operations. owning approximately 10 percent of WD shares outstanding, and reserving the right to designate two individuals to the board of directors of WD. On March 8, 2012, Western Digital (WD) acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WD common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. Hitachi paid IBM US$2.05 billion for its HDD business. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded on January 6, 2003, as a merger of the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi. ![]()
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