http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Stor...-unit/148902/0/

The industry is due to become even more competitive with Western Digital Corp's plan to buy Hitachi Ltd's hard-disk-drive unit for $4.3 billion, a deal that would create global leader with deep resources.

H也才賣 4.3B
S想賣1.5B
太超過了吧


http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/380.wss

2002: IBM today announced it has completed an agreement to combine its hard disk drive operations with Hitachi's, forming a new company called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

Under the agreement, Hitachi has purchased the majority of IBM's HDD-related assets for $2.05 billion. As planned, Hitachi paid 70 percent of the purchase price to IBM today. Hitachi will pay the remainder to IBM over the next three years.



當初買 $2.05B
現在賣 $4.3B

大概10年左右



http://www.servethehome.com/storage...arket-analysis/


HDD Supplier CQ4 2010
Market Share Percentage in Units
WD 31.2
Seagate 29.2
Hitachi GST 18.1
Toshiba 10.8
Samsung 10.7
Total 100

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如果合併成功之後的數據~

HDD Supplier CQ4 2010
Market Share Percentage in Units

WD 31.2 + Hitachi GST 18.1= 49.3
Seagate 29.2 + Samsung 10.7= 39.9
Toshiba 10.8

Total 100