Western Digital Acquires Hard Drive Platter Manufacturer Komag

[turbox997]

Komag is the largest supplier of magnetic hard disk drive platters for Western Digital as well as other large hard drive
manufacturers including Hitachi GST and Seagate Technology. Recently, both Hitachi GST and Seagate Technology have Komag
to thank for raising the capacity bar to 1TB of storage space. However, this may all change when Western Digital's acquisition is
completed during the 3rd quarter of 2007.


Big news, this could change the future of prices and even the quality of future drives. As stated and known both Seagate and Hitachi
get their platters from Komag, now it's owned by one of their biggest competitors. I guess Samsung does make their own
platters(334GB per platter)?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7891

[BrowncoatGR]

Old news and there already was a topic on this

[SaFrOuT]

i think this is very bad indeed

[Frank M]

i think this is very bad indeed

Agree.
Had my first dead hdd today - even though among the drives I have there are
Maxtors, one over 3 year old, the dead was a 3-month old WD. Wonder how much
lower the quality will sink in the near future...

[Dainas]

Agree.
Had my first dead hdd today - even though among the drives I have there are
Maxtors, one over 3 year old, the dead was a 3-month old WD. Wonder how much
lower the quality will sink in the near future...

Oh don't get me started, I've had about 4 maxtors.. and all of those over 20GB (up to a 250GB) died from chirp of death within 1.5 years of good use. My record with Western Digitals for chirping data corruption has not been much better, however they would come back from the brink from as little effort as running it upside down.. The Maxtors always went dead as in for good as soon as the chirp started. Also had acouple of bad Seagate's but those came DOA.

Still I'm appalled considering from what I've seen, it would be impossible for any of the large drive companies to have less than a 30% within 2 year failure rate.

[Kobalt]

I've never had hard drive problems??? These raptors are chuggin along 3 years later and ive had this 160gb WD storage drive for almost 3 years as well. I have 2 other 160gb drives that are the same and I haven't had any problems with them either. Then there are the 7+ other systems I've built for friends over the past few years without hard drive problems as well. Maybe you all have bad luck or your cooling sucks? :p:

[turbox997]

Old news and there already was a topic on this

What are you talking about? If you're talking about Komag being the supplier to Seagate and HItachi, yes everyone knows that, but if you're talking about WD buying out Komag, then no, it is not olllld news.

[Pinnacle]

What are you talking about? If you're talking about Komag being the supplier to Seagate and HItachi, yes everyone knows that, but if you're talking about WD buying out Komag, then no, it is not olllld news.

I think this is what he means
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=149773

[rogueagent6]

Old news and there already was a topic on this

I think this is what he means
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=149773

You are both correct, I already posted this on the 29th.

[turbox997]

You are both correct, I already posted this on the 29th.

whoops, my fault. :shakes: mods, please merge, lock, or delete etc.

[RaZz!]

Agree.
Had my first dead hdd today - even though among the drives I have there are
Maxtors, one over 3 year old, the dead was a 3-month old WD. Wonder how much
lower the quality will sink in the near future...

the only hdd which died on me was a ibm/hitachi. all of my wd-drives are working flawlessly for ages.
even the approx. 10 year old seagate 10gb-drives in my father's pc are doing their job good ;D

[iddqd]

Meh, SSD would likely be the storage technology of choice for xs forums in the near future.