SIMPLE TECH INC / SILICON TECH / STEC

Simple Technology Inc. and Silicon Tech merged under a single brand name SimpleTech (then sTec Inc). SimpleTech Inc was a Santa Ana, California, company supplied memory, storage, and connectivity products for computing, communications, consumer electronics, and industrial applications.

Simple Technology provided standard and custom memory solutions, with products based on dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, static random access memory, or SRAM, and Flash memory technologies, such as CompactFlash. Simple Technology offered a comprehensive line of over 2,500 memory and storage products, as well as connectivity products that connect memory cards and hard drive upgrade kits to PCs. These products are used in high performance computing, networking and communications, consumer electronics and industrial applications.

sTec designs, develops and manufactures solid-state drives (SSDs) based on flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), providing them to large-scale data center environments and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. sTec offered standard and custom memory solutions to original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, and aftermarket customers, including value added resellers, or VARs, mail order customers, commercial and industrial distributors, and retailers.

Products

SimpleTech specialized in high-density modules, cards and drives.

• Flash Products
  SimpleTech offers leading flash memory cards, USB flash drives, and memory. The Company’s Flash products are used in a variety of applications, ranging from high-capacity industrial applications to high-performance networking applications to mobile consumer electronic devices. The primary focus of the SimpleTech Flash offering is manufacturing Flash products for use as an embedded storage device.
• SimpleTech Storage
  SimpleTech offers the SimpleDrive family of direct-attached external storage products for data storage and back up. The Company’s SimpleDrive Desktop product line provides high-density, high-speed, cost-effective storage in 160 gigabyte to 500 gigabyte capacities. Its SimpleDrive Portable product line offers similar features in a smaller, more durable form factor in capacities ranging from 40 gigabyte to 100 gigabyte. The primary usage of these external hard drives is for plug and play storage expansion and system backup. Its SimpleDrive Mini product line offers the smallest form factor available for disk drive based external storage with a capacity of four gigabyte.

sTec was acquired by HGST, a Western Digital company. Western Digital completed the acquisition of sTec on September 12, 2013.

sTec, Inc. was a solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturer that was known for its enterprise-class SSD solutions. The company was founded in 1990 and became a significant player in the SSD market, providing high-performance and high-reliability storage solutions for data centers, cloud computing, and enterprise environments.

One of sTec's notable product lines was the ZeusIOPS SSDs, which were renowned for their speed and endurance, making them suitable for demanding enterprise applications.

In 2013, HGST (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, acquired sTec, Inc. This acquisition was part of HGST's efforts to strengthen its position in the enterprise storage market and expand its portfolio of SSD offerings.

HGST itself was a well-established company in the storage industry, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) and SSD products. With the acquisition of sTec, HGST aimed to enhance its presence in the rapidly growing SSD market and leverage sTec's expertise in enterprise SSD technology.

The acquisition of sTec by HGST marked a significant consolidation within the storage industry, as established companies sought to bolster their capabilities in the face of evolving storage technologies and growing demand for SSDs in enterprise environments.