Seagate and Micron join hands to combine innovation and expertise

[Himanshu Arora]

Micron and Seagate have entered into a strategic agreement that they say will establish a framework for combining their innovation and expertise. The multi-year agreement will see the companies initially focusing on next-generation SAS SSDs and strategic NAND supply, with collaboration on enterprise storage solutions featuring Micron NAND flash memory in the future.

According to Phil Brace, Executive Vice President of Electronics Solutions at Seagate, the partnership allows the company to secure a strategic supply of NAND flash memory, as well as collaboration on future products and technologies. “Our companies are leaders in the storage industry, and in working together we build on that success.”

On the other hand, the agreement will benefit Micron, which is the third largest flash memory chip supplier behind Samsung and Toshiba/SanDisk, in that the company will have access to enterprise drive technology and platforms, something which will not only help it expand its portfolio, but will also accelerate its push into the enterprise market segment.

“The collaboration will assure both Seagate and Micron target the growing enterprise flash market with industry-leading offerings across both of our product portfolios,” said Darren Thomas, Vice President of Storage, Micron.

Seagate has already been acquiring companies involved in flash memory technology; back in September last year, it purchased LSI’s Accelerated Solutions Division (ASD) and Flash Components Division (FCD) from Avago. Prior to that, in 2011, Seagate also acquired Samsung's hard disk drive (HDD) business in a deal worth around $1.4 billion.

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[Guest]

I lost complete interest after reading the name "Seagate".

 

[cliffordcooley]

^Troll

 

[Uncle Al]

LOL

 

[stewi0001]

"We turn on ideas" poor choice in words, because you can view it has that they are turning on the ideas and destroying them! MUAHAHUAHAUHAUHUAHUA

 

[Nima304]

I'm still not buying Seagate until at least 2022. In that year, I'll do a bunch of research to see if their failure rates are still as high as before, and if so, I won't buy them for yet another decade.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I didn't realize Seagate was already labeled as a failure with SSD. Apples to oranges, if you are going to drag their mechanical failures over into the SSD segment.

 

[captaincranky]

I'm still not buying Seagate until at least 2022. In that year, I'll do a bunch of research to see if their failure rates are still as high as before, and if so, I won't buy them for yet another decade.

That would mean you might not buy a Seagate drive, until 2032. Do the math. Would you check again in 2032, or just give up and buy one? How do you know we'll even need mechanical HDDs in 2032? We might be using tanks full of algae to store data. Meh, but then again, 'Backblaze' will probably kill all the Seagate algae, and make it look like Seagate's fault.

 

[Nima304]

That would mean you might not buy a Seagate drive, until 2032. Do the math. Would you check again in 2032, or just give up and buy one? How do you know we'll even need mechanical HDDs in 2032? We might be using tanks full of algae to store data. Meh, but then again, 'Backblaze' will probably kill all the Seagate algae, and make it look like Seagate's fault.

I wouldn't "give up and buy one," I'd shop Seagate's main competitors. And I don't mean just their mechanical hard drives, I'm boycotting all of their products, software and hardware, until 2022. Why shop a brand that can't design and QA their products properly, and can't fix their mistakes after years of customer complaints?