Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate 153
nanoflower followed up on a recent story about the unpredictable future of data storage. That story talked about Western Digital buying Hitachi, leaving just 4 players. Now:
"Yet another hard drive company is going by the wayside, as Seagate is buying the Samsung HDD unit. Seagate is buying the unit for $1.375 billion (half in stock, half in cash)."
Seagate has been flirting with Samsung for awhile (Score:3, Informative)
Mac OS X too! (Score:4, Informative)
Not just Linux! I've had 50% failure rate (3 of 6 over the last 18 months) on Seagate 3.5" 1tb drives in a RAID enclosure connected to my Mac. I'll also note the continuing problems with the Momentus XT 2.5" hybrid drives; apparently the drive is optimized for Windows and works poorly at best (or fails more frequently) under Linux or Mac OS X. And Seagate's firmware update is basically a Windows solution that requires lots of extra effort to work on any other OS.
Re:Merge (Score:3, Informative)
Re:More interesting... (Score:4, Informative)
Hitachi GST is in the process of being acquired by WD, so if in the mean time Seagate is acquiring Samsung's HDD lines, then we've seen the amount of choice shrink greatly in only a few months.