WD to buy Hitachi GST

[nicholab]

Storage sale SHOCK: WD to buy Hitachi GST ? The Register

[SYNACK]

And here was me thinking that WD could not do anything to make less reliable drives.

[synaesthesia]

They could have bought Maxtor from seagate

[Arthur]

This means Hitachi's external hard drives are now going to come bundled with WDs SmartWare junk.

[mac_shinobi]

On the bright side at least other companies are making SSD's ie OCZ, Corsair etc so once prices come down , won't have to worry about WD, Seagate, etc unless they have SSD's in the works to compete with OCZ, Corsair / Samsung etc

[SYNACK]

They could have bought Maxtor from seagate

True, Maxtors were just delayed data wipeing devices, with a mean time between total, complete and spectacular failure that could be more easily communicated in days than months or years.

[synaesthesia]

I'm glad I'm not alone!

[nicholab]

I did have an IBM death star

[Arthur]

I hope Hitachi's firmware engineers can show WD how to make a HDD that actually works properly in a RAID array.

By the way, Samsung will be releasing 4TB HDDs sometime this year. I wonder how long is will take WD to release theirs?

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20544