Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 18:12 UTC (Wed) by ikm (guest, #493)
In reply to: Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune) by allesfresser
Parent article: Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

What are you going to buy instead of them?

Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 19:29 UTC (Wed) by einstein (guest, #2052) [Link] (2 responses)

> What are you going to buy instead of them?

fujitsu, maxtor, western digital...

Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 20:47 UTC (Wed) by ikm (guest, #493) [Link]

> fujitsu, maxtor, western digital...

"Seagate and /Western Digital (WDC)/, two of the major hard drive makers, have patents that
deal with many of the ways a storage device communicates with a computer, Watkins says."

And I've seen too much of dead Maxtors (they really deserve a dedicated cemetery to hold them
all), which would only leave Fujitsu? There's also Hitachi and Samsung out there.

I've been asking the original question just because I have much more trust in Seagates than in
anything else. Patent trolling is one thing, trusting data is still another one.

Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 23:01 UTC (Wed) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link]

Maxtor was bought by Seagate :O

Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 20, 2008 18:52 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

What if I say "Samsung" ?