[1] It had research and development, sales, support and manufacturing sites in China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Silicon Valley (USA), and Taiwan.

[6] In 1998, Simple Technology bought SiliconTech Inc., obtaining that company's business flash memory customer base and operation.

[6] In 1999, sTec was first to market the 1 GB solid-state IDE storage devices, SDRAM modules and also 320 MB Type II CompactFlash.

[citation needed] Simple Technology became a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock exchange on September 26, 2000, under the ticker symbol of STEC.

[8][9][5][11][6] Fabrik continued to develop and market products under the SimpleTech brand including the Joggle.com website and the environmentally friendly [re]drive introduced in 2008.

In 2009, after announcing EMC Corporation as the sole customer of its ZeusIOPS enterprise SSDs, sTec sales reached a $1 billion market capitalization.

[3] In April 2011, sTec announced it acquired the assets of Knowledge Quest Infotech Private Limited in Pune, India.

[21] On June 24, 2013, Western Digital corporation announced sTec would become part of its HGST subsidiary, with a purchase price estimated at $340 million.