Hints at bad news for anyone that cares about storage.

Reminds me of when Seagate bought out Samsung hard drives. Bad times. I have had so many new Seagates/Samsungs fail. My 2TB Samsung is still going strong.

Western Digital and HGST are apparently starting to integrate. It's just a quick byline in the article I saw today, but added a sad note. I really hope this doesn't mean that HGST's quality will approach that of Western Digital.It appears for now that HGST is going to be taking the high end enterprise lines for now. That much is good at least. We'll see how long the HGST brand and manufacturing facilities last, I'm afraid the writing is on the wall already.Article link:
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/seagate-enterprise-performance-10k-v8-turboboost-hdd-review,2-937-...
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