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HGST

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.

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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/

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History
Products
Hard drives and solid-state drives
External storage
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It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously from the remainder of the company due to conditions imposed by Chinese regulators. Chinese regulators later permitted Western Digital to begin wider integration of HGST into its main business. By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name.