http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/wd_sells_3point5_to_toshiba/
Heh, WD is selling at least some of it's 3.5" HD operations to Toshiba so it can buy Hitachi. Quote from end of article "Roughly speaking, the HDD industry will divide into three players in a 40-40-20 split: Seagate will have 40 per cent of the business, as will Western Digital, leaving Toshiba with 20 per cent." ----- Original Message ----- > Yeah, I'm probably going to continue buying Hitachi until they are > re-branded WD, then will switch to Seagate and Samsung. > > Enterprise drives (SAS and SCSI) will stay Seagate and Fujitsu (now > made by Toshiba). > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 14:52, Michael Schultheiss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> In the past couple years, Western Digital have been the worst for > >> me, followed by Seagate. I buy mostly Samsung drives, because they > >> are incredibly quiet and computer noise is one of my pet peeves. > > > > HDD manufacturers keep disappearing: > > > > Western Digital bought Hitachi Global Storage in March 2011 > > > > Samsung sold their HDD business to Seagate in December 2011 > > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith (K4RNT) > - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
