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| Industry | Computer data storage |
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| Predecessor | Simple Technology |
| Founded | March 1990 |
| Defunct | June 2013 |
| Fate | Acquired by HGST, a Western Digital company |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Number of locations | San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Ana, Calif., USA; China; Germany; India; Italy; Japan; Malaysia; Taiwan |
| Parent | Western Digital |
| Website | hgst |
sTec, Inc., was an American computer data storage technology company headquartered in California.[1] It had research and development, sales, support and manufacturing sites in China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Silicon Valley (USA), and Taiwan.
sTec, formerly Simple Technology then SimpleTech, was founded by Manouch Moshayedi and Mark Moshayedi in 1990. The company designs, develops and manufactures solid-state drives (SSDs) based on flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), providing them to data center environments and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers.[2]
Customers include Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, and IBM.[2][3] sTec also has distributors, resellers and system integrators.
sTec was acquired by HGST, a Western Digital company. Western Digital completed the acquisition of sTec on September 12, 2013.
- ^ Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “STEC Profile.” September 20, 2010.
- ^ a b By Beth Pariseau, SearchStorage. “STEC Inc. CTO looks at the future of flash and solid-state drives.” August 17, 2009.
- ^ By Paul Shread, Enterprise Storage Forum. “STEC Has EMC to Thank for Its Rapid Growth.” August 4, 2009.