I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad development for the consumer.
Less choice in the hard drive market if it's only going to be a two-horse race when all the old stock has gone.
On the other hand, choosing a brand should be easier for us, but if they both prove to equally unreliable, what then?
For those who may be interested -
Seagate lands Samsung's hard drive unit for $1.37 billion: It's duopoly time
Seagate has acquired Samsung Electronics' hard disk drive (HDD) operations for $1.37 billion in a move that boils the market down to two players. Seagate and Western Digital now control 90 percent of the HDD market with Toshiba a distant third.
Under the terms of the deal, Samsung will lump its HDD unit into Seagate in exchange for a cash and stock deal worth $1.375 billion. Samsung will own nearly 10 percent of Seagate and the two companies will cross-license patents. Samsung will also provide NAND flash memory for Seagate's solid-state drives. In addition, Seagate will supply drives for Samsung's PCs.
The two companies will also co-develop enterprise storage gear. Seagate and Samsung have had a joint development pact since August.
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