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12:34 pm Fri
Jun 1, 2012
And then there were three ... hard drive manufacturers
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Yeah this will be good for people buying said hard drives, companies who buy out others will surely deliver even better products right guys? yeah no. At least the SSD market still has some good competition lets see how long that last before you have your ‘choice’ between company A or company B…
Poor competitors don’t improve products and merely provide the illusion of choice. Since the IBM deathstar debacle I haven’t bought anything but a Seagate or WD as they’re consistently at the top for price/performance|storage.
As you said there’s plenty of competitors in the SSD space which I expect to grow into the dominant consumer product, keeping pressure on consumer segment HDs.
I was an engineer in the disk drive industry for 5 years. It was the most boring five years of my life. I guess that’s a good thing, because the boredom drove me to make zines, which I loved.
Heh heh, I’m not sure I’d trust that graphic, though the overall message is the same.
Looks like someone just did a quick news headline search for drive manufacturers and didn’t realize that DEC was Digital Equipment Corporation? (Entertainment?!)
Also, no IBM? They were big. That’s where Hitachi GST came from. It didn’t just blink into existence, it was Hitachi buying IBM’s drive division and merging it with their existing division after the Deathstar fiasco.
(I had at one time: Three entire bad palettes of 9GB Quantum Fireballs – not a collection of RMAs, these was one whole shipment of bad drives from the factory. Unfortunately, it didn’t start showing up till after about a month… by six months, all dead)
There can be only one!
If Hitachi had changed the way that IBM SD did business (after they had bought it), they might have had success with it. But they didn’t change anything, so they didn’t.
The deathstar debacle was blown way out of proportion. I always bought IBM when I could afford the extra premium and never had a bad one, nor a bad drive from Hitachi afterwards.
You think that the hard drive industry is consolidating? Wait till you take a look at the consolidation in the buggy whip manufacturers.
It should go earlier like Conner!
Or Rodime — they made the first 3.5″ HDD but after going bust became patent trolls. An object lesson for our time.
Most interesting thing for me: Maxtor acquires Quantum HDD division for $2.3B and about 6 years later, Seagate acquires Maxtor for $1.9B. Someone screwed up big time!