Thursday, October 2nd 2008
Fujitsu to Sell its Unprofitable Hard Drive Business to Western Digital
A new rumour is spreading around the net, claiming that Fujitsu is in talks with WesternDigital to sell its hard disk drive business. Currently WD is the second-largest hard disk drive maker in the world behind Seagate Technology. Fujitsu's HDD business is ranked sixth. If there's a deal between WD and Fujitsu, it would raise WesternDigital's market share to almost the same level as the market leader Seagate Technology. A possible acquisition would include Fujitsu's plants in Japan, the Philippines and Thailand with a total of 15,000 workers.
Source:
CNET News
It's necessary for Fujitsu to review its disk-drive operations because it's facing severe competition in an industry that requires large commitments to capital spending for companies to be competitive,said Yukihiko Shimada, an analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. The deal would be finalized by the end of the year, according to experts. WD and Fujitsu representatives declined to make any official statements and confirm the story.
12 Comments on Fujitsu to Sell its Unprofitable Hard Drive Business to Western Digital
Maybe even a contract with Fujitsu to supply all their drives?
EDIT:If i remember right Fujitsu took over Quantum far few years ago. I had loads of trust in Quantum till that happened.
Anyways, Fujitsu laptop drives are iffy at best in my experience, however, they make some nice SCSI and SAS drives.
So Maxtor acquired Quantum and Seagate acquired Maxtor ?. Sheesh what a world we live in lol.
Seagate...no recent experience, but I know the super old ones never die (neither do the ancient WDs).
I wonder if seagate just closed down all of maxtor's manuf. It was such junk, I don't think they could've used it.
And on WD, I use them exclusively. Buy a good series (they've had bad batches as of late) and you'll most likely never have a failure for many years (unless you abuse it with high heat).
I run mine 24/7 with heavy use (lots of large archive stuff, defragging with O&O, multiple operations at a time, etc) and couldn't be more
pleased.
All I see in laptops are fujitsu and toshiba drives, but they do die a lot. But most of that can be attributed to high heat. 55+ C isn't good haha (stupid ass laptop manuf).
I have a few Seagates still today working ones in the MB's others are 6GB+( maybe smaller) all though got bad blocks on them.
If i can find my old seagate i'll post a pic for giggles lol. My belovid mother thought i would still need it and could not been any more wrong lol.. She never brought my Fireball HDD's or my 2940 over have a feeling my bro did some thing with those :(.