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Old 21-04-2011, 21:36   #1
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Seagate buys Samsung HDs
Seagate acquires Samsung's HDD manufacturing:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/19/s...1-375-billion/

This leaves only two major HDD manufacturers in the marketplace (WD and Seagate).
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
Now where can I get a hard drive which isn't a total pile of *****?
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
I have only ever bought WD HDDs and I have never had any problems in the last 20+ years.
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
I love Samsung HDDs.

Let's hope they don't mess about with the low level design...
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
After the farce with the 4 802.11 Seagate drives I got through due to failures, and their appalling customer service looks like I'll have to cross Samsung drives off the good list too.
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Old 22-04-2011, 10:24   #6
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Nightmare not enough competition in the market never good for the consumer. I hope the Samsungs continue to be as good as the F3's. I do also have no issue with WD as long as they make none green bigger drives
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
The Majority of the Seagate Drives i have used have been fine and have lasted for years, my mate Jack now is still running a 200GB IDE that i fitted in a system i built for him 7 years ago and is fine. I have only had a problem with 1 drive and its a 1.5TB Sata Drive and they are nutoriously bad because of firmware.

As ive stated in another thread on here The Only drives i refuse outright to use are hitachi deathstars.
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
Who owns maxtor then?
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
Seagate bought out Maxtor years ago.
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
Seagate and Maxtor drives ftw, samsung drives pile of poo.
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
I have 2 Samsung Drives, a HD103SJ & HD154UI, 2 Seagate Drives ST310005 20AS and a 24AS and also a Western Digital WD20EARS. I have to say the Samsung and Seagate drives have been ok touch wood so far, the Western Digital is a recient edition but seems ok so far.
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Re: Seagate buys Samsung HDs
hitachi and fujitsu I dont know if these drives are still around anymore
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Hitachi still market the deathstar lol and Fujitsu still make SAS drives
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