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Western Digital to buy SSD for $340M
« on: June 28, 2013, 11:24:05 PM »
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Hard drive maker Western Digital to buy SSD experts sTec for $340M
STec started its life as Simple Technology in 1990 and went public in 2000.
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The reasons for this SSD frenzy is being driven by data centers which are dealing with much heavier demands on the machines, and of course our need to access information quickly. SSDs make compelling business sense as well as GigaOM Pro (Research) analyst Adam Lesser explains:
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Re: Western Digital to buy SSD for $340M
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 01:12:34 AM »
Interesting, so Hitachi are buying sTec, when WD have already made SSDs.  Granted, they weren't very good, guess they must have finally admitted that.  I'm not aware of sTec but from the article they seem to be more in the enterprise market.
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Re: Western Digital to buy SSD for $340M
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