Windows 7 - Seagate Completes Acquisition of Samsung's HDD Business

Britton30 · 12-31-2011

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Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and the European Commission.

Note further in the article WD is mentioned as buying the Hitachi HD business.

Dave76 · 01-01-2012

That narrows the players, hope the prices go back down to where they were a few months ago.

Golden · 01-01-2012

Oh no...Samsung was the one shining light in a host of bad HDD experiences for me in the last few years....

seekermeister · 01-01-2012

I never owned either a Samsung or Hatchi hard drive, but reducing the number of contenders is never good news for buyers.

Nemix77 · 01-02-2012

There's still Toshiba who recently acquired Fujitsu's hard drive business for notebook and external drives.

However, Seagate is still the powerhouse is the business now have acquired both Maxtor and Samsung's hard drive divisions.

seekermeister · 01-02-2012

I used to like Maxtors...until Seagate bought them out.

patio · 01-03-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by Golden

Oh no...Samsung was the one shining light in a host of bad HDD experiences for me in the last few years....

The exact opposite for me...every Samsung i had had nothing but issues along with short lifespans...

ICit2lol · 01-03-2012

Hum agree got rid of my Samsung well it's a spare but the Seagtaes knock it into a coked hat. Mind you withthis deal going on one wonders what will happen?

Read also this morning re Toshiba factory in Thailand is still under two meters of water.

Plus the steam rollers keep coming

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mjf · 01-03-2012

Essentially a global duopoly. A fair chance you could kiss goodbye to competition?

PwnFrnzy · 01-04-2012

Hitachi was the only Hard Drive Manufacture that I had no issues with.