RIP Seagate hard drives

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Toshiba seems to be suddenly visible in the 3.5" market, and attractively priced.  I don't know if that means they are trying to cash in on the dissatisfaction, or their hard drive operation has been taken over by WD or Seagate and just not general knowledge.


Stuart Biggerstaff

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces+biggers=lindahall.org at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces+biggers=lindahall.org at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:25 PM
To: Linux Users (formerly Caldera) discussion
Subject: Re: RIP Seagate hard drives

On 2013-02-20 1:06 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> My personal experience over the past 5 years or so has been that
> Seagate's quality has taken a nosedive, and WD's quality has improved
> slightly, such that WD is marginally better.  Sadly the net is that
> overall quality is lower now than its ever been.

Yes, and it's even worse in that we're now down to 2 manufacturers (WD, 
Seagate) ... the others are all gone or swallowed. Unfortunately it usually 
seems like duopolies are little better than monopolies.

Michael