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Seagate agrees to buy Samsung's HDD unit in $1.4 billion deal
In addition, the companies will enter into a NAND flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will provide Seagate with its NAND flash memory chips for use in Seagate's enterprise SSDs, solid state hybrid drives and other products. Likewise, Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics.
The two companies will reportedly also co-develop new enterprise storage solutions, and a Samsung executive will be nominated to join Seagate's board of directors in the near future. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2011.
The move comes as the hard disk drive industry is going through a consolidation process, with Western Digital announcing plans to buy Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion -- becoming a strong leader with about 50% of the total market. Should this and Seagate's acquisition of Samsung's HDD unit clear all regulatory hurdles it would produce two nearly equally matched manufacturers with Toshiba taking the remaining 10% of the pie.
Fewer competitors may also give the industry some long-term price stability at a time they have been affected by constant price wars. Unfortunately, that's not something consumers will be too excited about.
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It is sad to see this. Samsung drives are awesome Seagates are not so much. Well lets hope the crosspaptents they are sharing means Seagate will use all of Samsungs HDD tech and make better drives.
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Well that's a pretty lady right there.
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I just bought a samsung hdd; they better honor the warranty...
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What will happen with the waranty if i buy a Samsung HDD right now ????
Can anyone explain to me ?
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great!... letting seagate come in and crapping on the Spinpoint drives. this sucks!!. now all the spinpoint drives are gonna have reliability rating of 0. just while i thought i was done with seagate, they pull me back in!
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howzz1854 said:
great!... letting seagate come in and crapping on the Spinpoint drives. this sucks!!. now all the spinpoint drives are gonna have reliability rating of 0. just while i thought i was done with seagate, they pull me back in!
Well, until Seagate takes over the production lines, they'll still be samsung drives. Even still, if the production lines are separate, seagate will continue to manufacture those drives on the same lines as well if they keep the brand alive... They did kill off all the maxtor internal HDD lines quite quickly, and later rebranded a couple maxtor external drives.
I just hope Seagate realizes Samsung has been making drives better and will learn something from them in this aquisition (probably not).
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Timonius said:
Is this Samsung's subtle way of saying it's time to move away from traditional mechanical hard drives altogether and just go solid state?
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