Seagate buys Samsung HDD division for 1.375 billion

[Student26]

Samsung will provide Seagate with its market-leading semiconductor products for use in Seagate's enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid state hybrid drives and other products . . The deal is expected to complete in full by year's end

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“Overall, the reduction from five to three manufacturers considerably improves the stability and efficiency of the HDD industry,” said Fang Zhang, analyst for storage systems at IHS.

“However, the acquisition also signals a recognition by Seagate and Samsung that conditions in the storage space will become more challenging in the future.”

With Toshiba and Fujitsu having performed a merger of sorts back in 2009, this leaves the HDD market divided between three entities.

Western Digital leads with roughly 50%, followed by Seagate (40%) and, finally, Toshiba (10%, obviously).

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[JayCub]

Thank you for the updates Student, i use both WD and Seagate and neither has let me down, Samsung got some great reviews, so this looks like good buisness sense, at the end of the day i hope they produce good quality affordable storage. Hybrid like SSD are overpriced although we now have Sata III on the shelves with some price drops.

[Student26]

Thank you for the updates Student, i use both WD and Seagate and neither has let me down, Samsung got some great reviews, so this looks like good buisness sense, at the end of the day i hope they produce good quality affordable storage. Hybrid like SSD are overpriced although we now have Sata III on the shelves with some price drops.

Totally agree. Hope that the quality can remain and SATA III provides even better performance. However, the future seems to with the pricey and expensive Hybrid and SSD drives - not that the traditional mechanical are leaving any time soon. SSDs just don't offer the storage space, at least for me to make them a viable purchase. Unfortunately, as a student, SSDs and hybrids are slightly out of my price range

[hellnoire]

Toshiba's the only one I'd stay away from personally. Bought a mouse from them last year... it's giving out. And their HDDs in my testing don't hold up. But the other two? Nothing less then much love to them both.

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the news Student. I am a WD man myself, as I have always good luck with them.