Seagate

[StrangleHold]

Seagate is buying the Samsung hard drive division.

 

[tremmor]

Thats interesting. Now i would like to know why.

 

[StrangleHold]

Samsung combining its hard disk drive (HDD) operations into Seagate
Extending and enhancing the existing patent cross-license agreement between the companies
A NAND flash memory supply agreement under which 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
A disk drive supply agreement under which Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics
Expanded cooperation between the companies to co-develop enterprise storage solutions
Samsung receiving significant equity ownership in Seagate
A shareholder agreement under which an executive of Samsung will be nominated to join Seagate’s Board of Directors

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d00a78162ab6f210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/04/19/samsung-and-seagate-announce-strategic-agre/1

 

[johnb35]

Hopefully that means that seatools will run and fix errors for samsung drives soon.

 

[StrangleHold]

Probably DiskWizard will too.

 

[linkin]

As long as they continue to make good drives like the F3's under the samsung I don't really think it matters too much. The benefits outweigh the cons.