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    Seagate to buy Samsung HDD buisness

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Abula, Apr 19, 2011.

  1. Abula

    Abula Puro Chapin

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    Seagate to buy Samsung HDD business

    This is a sad day for me, Hitachi was my brand for laptops hdd and samsung was for desktops, avoiding both seagate and western digital, now im out of options for the future.
     
    Abula, Apr 19, 2011
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    Why would you avoid an entire company?
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 19, 2011
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    So does this mean that Seagate and WD are now the only two manufacturers of conumer magnetic hard drives?
     
    Homo habilis, Apr 19, 2011
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    I think this just demonstrates that making SSDs are more profitable than making HDDs, so that is why Samsung is selling its business in the latter.

    I am not impressed with the limited write cycles of SSDs though, and will probably wait for some breakthrough in reliability or at least for the technology to become more mature.
     
    Pikachu, Apr 19, 2011
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    toshiba is, too, but I have trouble finding their HDDs outside of the enterprise and laptop arena.
     
    jeremyshaw, Apr 19, 2011
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    seems like they sold the SSD bit too, they'll be supplying the chips and technology to seagate....

    hopefully this means we get a super duper kick second generation Momentus XT......
     
    afhstingray, Apr 19, 2011
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    I think this is bad news for prices for HDDs in the medium- to long-term, as there will be much less competition with the consolidation of the players in this really mature industry.
     
    mochaultimate, Apr 19, 2011
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    There is so much cross-licensing of technology and patents these days that there isn't much of a real difference between disk drives or manufacturers.

    There. I Said It.

    Buy the drive with the best warranty. End of Story.

    Can't even buy on reputation anymore. Drive models change so often and are built in such huge quantities that by the time a particular drive gets a bad reputation, the factories have already changed over to the next model.
     
    newsposter, Apr 19, 2011
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    100% agreed. I encourage others to ignore anyone that says one manufacturer is superior to another.
     
    laserbullet, Apr 19, 2011
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    If that's the case, then you can't say there is any difference between intel and AMD.
     
    Homo habilis, Apr 19, 2011
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    Intel readily admits that it's business success is as much a factor of ingrained and inbred customer loyalty (see IBM in the 1970s, msft in the 2000s, IBM again in the 2010s) than real-world tech superiority over AMD.

    Anyone who spends their life fanboi-ing over providers of high volume commodity tech is an idiot.
     
    newsposter, Apr 19, 2011
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    Seagate is a pretty good company, with top performer Hard Drives,a few years ago,I signed up for there crystal reports seminar,they cancelled it,,as a token,,they sent me a free seagate polo shirt and other goodies by UPS all gratis. This type of merger will benefit both Samsung and Seagate.

    Cheers
    3Fees
     
    3Fees, Apr 19, 2011
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    What about reduced competition and increased prices for consumers? The Disk Drive market seems to be concentrating in the hands of WD and Seagate duo.. much like the airline industry coalescing around 4 big players & increased fares, this merger may not turn out to be good for paying consumers.
     
    mtneer, Apr 20, 2011
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    This is probably one of the most idiotic statements I've read in quite some time. People that cater to a "provider of high volume commodity tech" over another do it because they happen to like that provider. And in many cases, it's not just the specific "provider of high volume commodity tech" they like either.

    Considerations need to be made for the intangibles such as reliability (MTBF), investment value (will the product hold its value in the long term over a competing product), and most importantly (to me anyway), is the service and support that goes along with a provider of high volume commodity tech.
     
    garetjax, Apr 20, 2011
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    This shouldn't be a problem because there is the emerging/maturing SDD as the greatest competitor to the HDD market. As SDD become cheaper and more reliable, they may eventually replace HDD in most consumer situations and only limited to situations such as servers.
     
    NomisR, Apr 20, 2011
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    When is this happening? Not any time in the foreseeable future....
     
    Homo habilis, Apr 20, 2011
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    I dont see any reason to believe the SSD's will have a lot more competitors fighting for marketspace than the current number of HDD manufacturers. It may not be far fetched to believe that the big players in HDD manufacturing today will still be the big boys in the SSD marketspace 5/10/15 years down the line (whenever SSD's replace HDD's).
     
    mtneer, Apr 21, 2011
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  18. Abula

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    Another article on it, Seagate – Samsung Deal the Storage Industry Impact

     
    Abula, Apr 22, 2011
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    mtneer, Apr 23, 2011
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