HGST
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thumb|right|upright=1.1|HGST's Fujisawa plant, expanded from IBM Fujisawa#Fujisawa manufacturing|IBM's Fujisawa plant HGST, Inc. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services.
OverviewAI-generated
HGST, also known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, was a company based in San Jose, United States. The organization was established in 2003. It operated as a business entity within the technology sector.
The company was dissolved in 2018. Its products included high-capacity hard disk drives designed for personal computers, network-attached storage systems, gaming applications, data centers, and artificial intelligence data cycles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- HGST, Inc.
- Company.logo
- HGST Logo.png
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Western Digital in 2012; brand phased out in 2018
- Company.predecessor
- IBM's hard drive business
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Mike Cordano (President)
- Company.industry
- Computer storage devices
- Company.products
- Hard disk drives solid-state drives external storage devices
- Company.num_employees
- 45,000
- Company.location_city
- San Jose
- Company.location_country
- United States
- Company.homepage
- http://www.hgst.com/
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 2003
- Location
- San Jose, United States
- Also known as
- HGST
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.450890.0 · ISNI 0000 0004 0634 5771
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- San Jose
- Owned by
- IBM
- Parent organization
- Western Digital
- Industry
- computer storage media
- Legal form
- S.A.
- Follows
- IBM
- Official website
- www.hgst.com
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- HGST, Inc.
- inception
- 2003-00-00
- product or material produced
- hard disk
- different from
- Hitachi-LG Data Storage
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-00-00
- official shop URL
- www.hgst.com
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Products
- Hard drives and solid-state drives
- External storage
- See also
- References
* Why HDD is essential to the AI economy
Hard disks form AI’s foundational layer, providing durable, cost-efficient storage that enables AI systems to scale economically.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HGST” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.