Specializing in SATA interface, SAS hard drive-Western Digital abandon the enterprise market data in the West, Seagate, Hitachi, SAS hard drive-IT news Specializing in SATA interface, Western Digital abandon the enterprise market for SAS hard drives

At the Taipei computer show Computex 2014 Congress, world's leading hard drive manufacturer Western data (Western Digital) made a surprise decision. Subsidiary SAS HDD Western Digital officially announced that starting from the second half of 2014 to Hitachi (HGST), Western Digital will specialize in SATA HDD development.

This also means that data formally abandoned in Western enterprise-class SAS hard drives in the market, specific reasons may be related to United States Seagate (Seagate) 2013 years in court proceedings.

In 2013, the United States Seagate data Western minisuda County Court win against allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets, and WD needs to pay 630 million dollars compensation, then Western data continue to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. However, the data still lost in the West, must pay for Seagate of $ 630 million, while stopping the production hardware storage products.

This case resulted from a United States Seagate (Seagate) employee Sining Mao before the event. The employee in 2006 after leaving Seagate, applied to competitor data company with a job in the West. Subsequently, the Seagate in 2011 against former employees complaint made by Mao and peer data company in the West, to prevent their trade secrets are used in data storage products in the West.

At present, the data company in the West has only two SAS hard drive product line, namely "Re" and "Xe" series, but remain in the SAS 6Gbps interface, has not raised from SAS to 12Gbps.

But Western data stop supply SAS hard drive is not very large, because its Hitachi (HGST) in SAS data storage products is far greater than West, which is still the main enterprise market, Western data for the company's overall earnings and does not have a large effect.