News Seagate to absorb Samsung's hard drive business

With the price/GB for HDDs having come down so much in the last 5 years, it's not suprising that samsung is ditching a market with what I assume must be razor thin margins to focus on more lucrative aspects of their business (smartphones, tablets, TVs, etc).

I am a bit worried that toshiba/fijitsu dosn't have the required market share to prevent a duopoly, although price fixing would be dead obvious for consumer class bare drives.

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! WHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

It probably just a coincidence because according to my own experience, it was Samsung which (once again) the least reliable manufacturer between the three. I have a maxtor drive here and it is still kicking after 10 years (LOL), and I know several peoples who have maxtor and so far, they're very reliable. In fact, when Maxtor was bought by Seagate, I feel a little sad because they were the drive manufacturer I woud recommend to anyone.

And the same couldn't be applied to Samsung because there are some of my friends who got a broken drives and some of 'em are Samsung (the other would be Seagate). So, from my own experience, WD, Toshiba, etc. are okay, while Samsung & Seagate are the brands to avoid.

One thing I've found Samsung lacking is their supporting softwares. While Seagate has the SeaTools & WD has the xxx (forgot the name LOL), Samsung have a bunch of different software for each model. This would be a problem when someday the drive is having problem (though I don't know if it is still the case now because I don't know anyone here with a Samsung drive anymore).

 

Looks like its gone ahead.

Seagate paid $1.75 billion USD.

Link

 

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

Just FYI if you read the first article this just leaves Seagate, WD and Toshiba. Hitachi and Fujitsu were bought by WD already...

 

Good business for Seagate, Samsung were going to go whatever happened and WD stuck with buying the next firm to inherit IBM's tech.

It's all in the method though, deliberately dropping prices to get in one last Christmas of good sales, it's like an air tour operator going out of business and taking orders up to the last day.

So when it's time to buy a flat TV, or a new phone, guess which firm is off the list?

 

Looking at Samsung 1TB drive at the moment.
Can anyone tell me what the difference between the F3, F3R and F3EG is?

 

Pretty much this. Looks like I'll be switching to WD.

Get the F3. The F3EG is a wimpy 'green' version and the F3R is the enterprise version, which cost a lot more.

 

oh well looks like a couple of 1tb drives coming my way before the end of summer although id imagine that seasgate will probably take on more of what makes the f3's great to possibly put them into the same position as samsung are at the moment