Seagate and Samsung this morning announced an alliance that will revolutionize the storage industry. Seagate is the big winner: absorbs the production activity of hard drives from Samsung and gaining privileged access in exchange for the Korean and flash memory technologies on its SSD. Seagate has missed the technological shift of DSS.
For reasons unknown to us the leader in hard drives has failed to develop a range of products sufficiently attractive. Result, it is totally absent from the SSD market for the general public and arrived very late on the SSD market "pro" with its Pulsar, which are based on a classic controller SandForce.
The alliance with Samsung thus resembles a salvation for Seagate. Under the agreement: We do not yet know if the Samsung brand will disappear from the market for hard drives or Seagate will retain. The first hypothesis seems more consistent. After the acquisition of Hitachi GST by Western Digital, the choice of hard drives is becoming easier ... 
For reasons unknown to us the leader in hard drives has failed to develop a range of products sufficiently attractive. Result, it is totally absent from the SSD market for the general public and arrived very late on the SSD market "pro" with its Pulsar, which are based on a classic controller SandForce.
The alliance with Samsung thus resembles a salvation for Seagate. Under the agreement: We do not yet know if the Samsung brand will disappear from the market for hard drives or Seagate will retain. The first hypothesis seems more consistent. After the acquisition of Hitachi GST by Western Digital, the choice of hard drives is becoming easier ...
- Samsung Inks Major $1.375 Billion Deal With Seagate On HDD Operations And More (19/04/2011)
- Seagate to buy Samsung hard disc arm? (18/04/2011)
- Seagate to buy Samsung's disk drive biz? (18/04/2011)
- Seagate Could Buy Samsung Hard-Disk Drive Unit, WSJ Says (18/04/2011)
- Samsung itching to dump HDD business as SSDs arrive in MacBook Air (18/04/2011)
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