Western Digital buys Hitachi Global Storage… three months ago
Posted by Javi Lavandeira in Fun, Gadgets, Hardware, Technology | June 19, 2012
Remember this post from a few days ago? I was talking about how Hitachi is spamming its customers (me being one of them), and I ended the post with “Buy a Western Digital instead”.
Well, after that blog post a very polite representative from Hitachi actually replied via email asking about the hard drive’s serial number and part number. I wrote back to him just a few minutes ago, and I got an automated error message from their mail server:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has been acquired by Western Digital. Our new name is HGST. When sending email messages to HGST, please adjust your email address to use the “hgst.com” domain. Example:jim.smith@hgst.com
Emphasis mine. Initially I thought it was some kind of joke from their mail server admin(s), but it’s actually true. Here’s the press release from Western Digital. The press release is actually from March, so I was three months late with my buy a Western Digital comment.
What will happen now? Will they stop spamming non-US customers regarding US-only campaigns? Or will it get worse?