Seagate buys Samsung

Shame really. Samsung F3 was my drive of choice.

However. All these 1TB HDD's are much of a muchness these days. Providing they all come with a warranty. Who cares which one breaks more.
 
Samsung SSD's are included in the deal as well :(

personally i like samsung drives, but really dont like seagate/western digital drives - maybe samsung will teach them to make a decent drive :p
 
Wonder how long before there is only Seagate left. Going by the amount of other HDD manufactuers they have bought.
 
Will seagate handle the rma of samsung drives? Ive got a 320gb F1 and a 1TB F3 that arent working.
 
WD buying hitachi, that's a good thing... they make the worst drives out of them all, the dreaded deathstar. Their OEM 2.5 drives used in laptops are as much use as a chocolate teapot! I had a drawer full last year.
 
Aside from 7200.11 series - which fortunatly had a heads up on and avoided - never had a problem with Seagate (at one point I was buying around 15 of their drives a month for best part of a year for a project and had only 1 failure in that time (SATA connector came apart)).
 
So I started off with Seagate, then went to WD, then Samsung, and now back to Seagate...?

Well, let's hope Samsung's reliability wiggles into whatever drives Seagate plans in the future.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
WD buying hitachi, that's a good thing... they make the worst drives out of them all, the dreaded deathstar. Their OEM 2.5 drives used in laptops are as much use as a chocolate teapot! I had a drawer full last year.
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The 'dreaded' (75GXP specifically) Deskstar is an IBM doing, when Hitachi acquired IBMs hard drive division they completely turned around its reputation. We've used them extensively at work for years with hardly any problems and none certainly out of the norm compared to others. Can honestly say i've not seen many dead 2.5 IDE Hitachis (60GB and 80GB Travelstars), maybe 4 out of our 120 laptops all using those drives since 2004. The newer stock with 160gb Momentus hdds have fared a lot worse and the middle stock (T5500 era machines) with Fujitsu 80gbs are horrendous.
 
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The 'dreaded' (75GXP specifically) Deskstar is an IBM doing, when Hitachi acquired IBMs hard drive division they completely turned around its reputation. We've used them extensively at work for years with hardly any problems and none certainly out of the norm compared to others. Can honestly say i've not seen many dead 2.5 IDE Hitachis (60GB and 80GB Travelstars), maybe 4 out of our 120 laptops all using those drives since 2004. The newer stock with 160gb Momentus hdds have fared a lot worse and the middle stock (T5500 era machines) with Fujitsu 80gbs are horrendous.
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They were Sata drives. No laptop I've seen in the last 5 years or so has used IDE.

I've used a few Hitachi externals and they all got RMA'd. Just never had anything good from them, as I said also. I had 5 Hitachi 2.5 Sata drives fail within a few months. This of course may have been by chance. WD also had a highish failure rate. Although I like their drives and the company. Hitachi not so much.

Nothing against Seagate, always found them rock solid. Not bothered they're buying Samsung. Provided they come with a decent warranty of three years or so. I don't care what label is on it. They all do exactly the same job when storing files.
 
You'd be surprised, a lot of the earlier intel 945GM laptops that RM (Research Machines) put out used IDE, their Mobile one rebranded Asus A3F and Compal EL81 machines were Core 2 duo DDR2 rigs with IDE drives, wasn't until 2008 or so that all of their laptops were solely SATA. I doubt theres much difference though between the SATA and IDE hard disk models apart from obvious controller electronics.
 
I used to have Maxtor drives and found then to be terribly unreliable. Then Seagate purchased them and now Samsung.

Really hope the quiet, fast and reliable Samsung drives survive in some form.
 
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