Western Digital Corp reported that the last quarter, which ended in 30 Sept had a profit of $ 2.7 billion, WD shipped 58 million hard disk drives. Net income for the period amounted to 239 million dollars.
The company's report included expenditures of $ 21 million associated with the planned acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), which was announced on 7 March.
A year ago the income were equal to $ 2.4 billion, and net income - $ 197 million. Shipments in quantitative terms was then 51 million units.
Since Seagate was recently approved to purchase Samsung hard disk drives production units , the above-mentioned deal between Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will lead to the fact that in the world will be only three manufacturers of hard drives.