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Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby duckula » April 18th, 2011, 1:00 am

Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung is planning to sell its hard disk drive (HDD) business held by Samsung Electronics. The company wants to focus on other kinds of storage products that are flash-based. Samsung is planning to sell the unit for an estimated US $1.5 billion. HDD major Seagate Technology is the front-runner to buy it. The HDD industry is under pressure after the market success of tablet and netbook industries, which use more compact and inexpensive SSDs instead of 1.8-inch HDDs. With Samsung's exit, the consumer HDD industry will be reduced to just three players: Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba.


http://www.techpowerup.com/144262/Samsu ... uy-It.html[hr]
This will narrow our choices in buying a new hard disk drive. WD bought out Hitachi HDD business recently and I hardly see any Toshiba drives in retail market. Only two options left for me: Seagate and Western Digital.
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RE: Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby c_hegge » April 18th, 2011, 1:19 am

YAY! One of the junk HDD manufacturers soon to be gone.
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Postby duckula » April 18th, 2011, 2:05 am

:lol2: Who are the other junk HDD manufacturers besides Samsung?
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RE: Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby c_hegge » April 18th, 2011, 2:11 am

Hitachi deathstars.
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the coils backwards! :D
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Postby duckula » April 18th, 2011, 2:24 am

lol I totally forgot deathstars and trashstars...
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RE: Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby shovenose » April 18th, 2011, 11:22 am

Seagate crap + samsung crap = crap
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RE: Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby Kong » April 20th, 2011, 5:01 am

Awww, why are you so harsh on Samsung and Seagate? They're the only 2 decent brands I use. One for an external harddrive (Seagate) and one for a computer monitor (Samsung).
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RE: Samsung Electronics Exiting HDD Business, Seagate Front-runner to Buy It [TPU]

Postby duckula » April 20th, 2011, 5:43 am

I think he is harsh on Samsung HDDs rather than the Samsung brand. So far as I know, he got a Samsung digital camera. :D

By the way, the deal has been done. Samsung HDD devision now is part of Seagate:

•Samsung combining its hard disk drive (HDD) operations into Seagate
•Extending and enhancing the existing patent cross-license agreement between the companies
•A NAND flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will provide Seagate with its market-leading semiconductor products for use in Seagate’s enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid state hybrid drives and other products
•A disk drive supply agreement under which Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics
•Expanded cooperation between the companies to co-develop enterprise storage solutions
•Samsung receiving significant equity ownership in Seagate
http://www.techpowerup.com/144338/Seaga ... nment.html
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Postby shovenose » April 20th, 2011, 5:58 am

I definitely like other Samsung products. But I hate samsund hard drives!
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Postby c_hegge » April 20th, 2011, 1:57 pm

Same here. I think samsung are excellent for just about everything but HDDs. In fact, All 3 of our PCs have samsung monitors and both of our LCD TVs are samsung.
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