Samsung's hard drive division purchased by Seagate. - Polidicks

[quote]Seagate Technology, a major maker of hard drives, said Tuesday that it had closed on the acquisition of the hard drive business of Samsung Electronics for $1.4 billion. The merger, which was announced in April, is both a talent and product acquisition, Seagate said. The agreement gives Seagate select elements of Samsung’s hard drive business, including Samsung’s high-capacity M8 hard drives and semiconductors used to make solid-state drives, (known in the industry as S.S.D.’s). Some senior managers and design engineers of Samsung will join Seagate. Stephen J. Luczo, Seagate’s chief executive, said in a statement that Seagate and Samsung had aligned product development to get new products ready faster. “It is an exciting time in the industry with rapidly evolving opportunities in many markets, including mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage,” he said. The acquisition will benefit Seagate in light of this year’s Thailand floods, which destroyed factories that produced hard drive parts, said Steve Duplessie, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Most of the world’s disk drives are not able to be built because Thailand is underwater,” Mr. Duplessie said, but Samsung’s production chain was for smaller, consumer disk drives, and it was not affected by the flood. Seagate should have an advantage against its major competitor, Western Digital, he said. Samsung’s specialty in producing flash memory (also known as NAND) is another crucial benefit for Seagate, said Jim Kelleher, an analyst with Argus Research. Newer, thinner notebooks, like Apple’s MacBook Air and ultrabooks made by PC makers like Hewlett-Packard, use flash memory for storage. Mr. Kelleher said, “This is a good deal for Seagate, as it provides a link with a leader in NAND flash at a time when Seagate must move into S.S.D.’s.” He said that without the deal, Seagate risked losing its dominance in supplying drives for PCs.[/quote] [url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/seagate-samsung-acquisition/]**SOURCE**[/url] Seagate, why? First you were awesome. You made the ST-225 which is still the most reliable hard drive in the world. Then you bought Maxtor which I guess was cool. ....but Samsung? Their drives are about as reliable as [url=http://chmhdd.wetpaint.com/page/MiniScribe+files+bancruptcy]Miniscribe[/url]'s

Samsing.

In my experience, seagate harddrives have been extremely failure prone. Apparently they used to be quite good, but it seems they've taken a downhill turn in terms of reliability

Only good Samsung HDD is the F3 series.

Hey, hey, hey. I have a Spinpoint F3 and it works great. [editline]23rd December 2011[/editline] My automerge.

[QUOTE=Icedshot;33869442]In my experience, seagate harddrives have been extremely failure prone. Apparently they used to be quite good, but it seems they've taken a downhill turn in terms of reliability[/QUOTE] It really depends, if you go for anything above the (before flooding) $70 mark its pretty damn reliable. As with any entry level product, what you pay is what you get. Especially if its mechanical.

[QUOTE=Icedshot;33869442]In my experience, seagate harddrives have been extremely failure prone. Apparently they used to be quite good, but it seems they've taken a downhill turn in terms of reliability[/QUOTE] It's called "They decided to use Maxtor's technology instead of their own." [QUOTE=silentjubjub;33869430]Samsing.[/QUOTE] I have no idea what you are talking about \:v:/

I have three seagate drives in my computer, they've never given me any problems *knocks on wood*

I've had a couple Seagate hd's die after like 2 weeks. Switched to WD. Haven't looked back since. Still using one that I bought in 05.

[QUOTE=MIPS;33869465]It's called "They decided to use Maxtor's technology instead of their own." I have no idea what you are talking about \:v:/[/QUOTE] I have a maxtor 10GB IDE drive that still works, and some other maxtor drive which is the size of a DVD burner. I forgot the name of that form of HDD though, its only 9GB. [editline]24th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=TheJoker;33869504]I've had a couple Seagate hd's die after like 2 weeks. Switched to WD. Haven't looked back since. Still using one that I bought in 05.[/QUOTE] Every WD HDD I've owned has had to be RMA'd or thrown in the trash. I recently switched to a higher end Seagate model and its outlasted most of my WD drives. My WD Black 640 failed after 2 months.

Samsung spinpoint f3's are awesome hdds

BUY ALL THE F3's

[QUOTE=leontodd;33869625]BUY ALL THE F3's[/QUOTE]

I've had 3 out of 3 Seagate drives fail and 0 out of 5 WD drives fail

I've used Seagates since I got into computers in 2005, haven't had a single one out of 12 or so fail on me.

WD master race. Since 07

Why is WD great when every single WD drive I've had has died and all my Seagates run fine.

[QUOTE=ripple3000;33872163]Why is WD great when every single WD drive I've had has died and all my Seagates run fine.[/QUOTE] Because it seems completely random

[QUOTE=ripple3000;33872163]Why is WD great when every single WD drive I've had has died and all my Seagates run fine.[/QUOTE] Let's blame it on FedEx according to the footage we've seen of the computer monitor tossing for your WD failures.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;33872217]Let's blame it on FedEx according to the footage we've seen of the computer monitor tossing for your WD failures.[/QUOTE] We don't use Fedex much up here, its mostly Purolator which ironically is a branch off of our federal postal system, they actually come to your door with the package.

Western Digital ERRY DAY SON

My WD 500 GB has been working like a charm since '06/'07. Still haven't used it all up. But uh. Be glad they haven't picked up shit from HP. Holy fuck.

My Verbatim from summer of '10 still runnin cool yea baby

My dad is upper management at Seagate. He's not happy that I pretty much always buy WD :v:

[QUOTE=Nyaos;33872577]My dad is upper management at Seagate. He's not happy that I pretty much always buy WD :v:[/QUOTE] I'm not happy that you pretty much run OSX.

[QUOTE=Icedshot;33869442]In my experience, seagate harddrives have been extremely failure prone. Apparently they used to be quite good, but it seems they've taken a downhill turn in terms of reliability[/QUOTE] Yeah, 2005-2009 seemed to be good years for seagate. I'm not sure about now, I generally go samsung or WD. I've had bad DOA rates with WD but they seem to last after getting him.

I don't know much shit about harddrives but I've been using a samsung f1 1TB for like 3 years and a samsung f3 1TB for 1 year with no backups or anything Now I'm bricking it, thanks guys [editline]24th December 2011[/editline] Okay fuck it, I'm putting RAID on my todo list

[QUOTE=ripple3000;33872163]Why is WD great when every single WD drive I've had has died and all my Seagates run fine.[/QUOTE] just to piss you off

my old samsung hard drive shit the bed after only two years good thing i replaced that fucker with a western digital

Time to stop buying F3s I guess.