IBM Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. have reached a final agreement to combine their hard disk drive (HDD) units into a new company majority owned by Hitachi, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the largest enterprise hard drive yet, a 300-Gbyte unit tagged with the moniker of Ultrastar 10K300.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST), the business created by the merger of the hard-disk drive manufacturing units of Hitachi Ltd. and IBM Corp., is to lay off about 400 workers, it ...

Hitachi has recently introduced a similar 1.8" drive which is used in the Dell DJ. Toshiba will be manufacturing 0.8" drives but these will not see full production until 2005.

The Nikkei business daily (which I do not read enough) in Tokyo reported Sunday that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc has stopped production of 1-inch hard drives and plans to stop shipping ...