RIP Seagate hard drives

[C M Reinehr]

On Wed 20 February 2013 03:25:54 pm Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> I think the upshot of the deal with WD is that Toshiba IS now in the
> consumer desktop market.  Micro center has 500GB and 1.2.and 3TB disks
> cheaper than WD and Seagate--but I don't see them at Amazon.  Or maybe I
> do--a 1TB that is listed as Toshiba, but the picture and copy say Hitachi.
> http://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-DT01ACA100-Cache-6-0Gb-Internal/dp/B008LA60N
> W/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&srs=2530648011&ie=UTF8&qid=1361395302&sr=1-6&keywords=tos
> hiba+hard+drive
> 
> 
> Stuart Biggerstaff
> 
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> Of Lonni J Friedman Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: RIP Seagate hard drives
> 
> Toshiba is still independent, but they're a niche at this point.  I
> dont' believe that they make desktop class products.  Hitachi is also
> still in the game, but they're all focused exclusively on enterprise
> storage products (SAS, etc).
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Newegg is showing 17 3.5", 7200RPM internal hard drives from 500MB to 3TB, 
described as "for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop 
computers", so it looks as if they're in the consumer market now.

cmr
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