Hitachi Data Systems to spin of storage division

[LunarMist]

Holy moly! So there will be only one global hard drive monopoly? Meanwhile flash memory durability is crapping out at smaller nodes. Basically all of our data is screwed.

 

[Stereodude]

Holy moly! So there will be only one global hard drive monopoly? Meanwhile flash memory durability is crapping out at smaller nodes. Basically all of our data is screwed.

By my count that would leave us with two. WD and Seagate.

 

[Chewy509]

By my count that would leave us with two. WD and Seagate.

Do Toshiba still make drives? (IIRC, Toshiba purchased Fujistsu storage)...

 

[Stereodude]

Do Toshiba still make drives? (IIRC, Toshiba purchased Fujistsu storage)...

Make that three then. ;-)

 

[LunarMist]

OK, somehow I am confused about Seagate absorption into WD. Anyway, Toshiba/Fujitsu are not in the 3.5' drives.

 

[Chewy509]

OK, somehow I am confused about Seagate absorption into WD. Anyway, Toshiba/Fujitsu are not in the 3.5' drives.

I thought they were?

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2010_12/pr1401.htm

Seems to indicate 2TB 7200rpm drives?

 

[LunarMist]

Hmmm. I wonder why they are not sold in the US, or maybe the 3.5" drives are new.

 

[LunarMist]

Hibachi backs up in the clouds? Sounds like BS to me.