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marv777
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 Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: Seagate to stop making 2.5" 7200 RPM drives |
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| I think HD will still be around for a long time. SSD are expensive and people cannot afford to buy them to. |
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Smithcraft
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We can only hope that WD and Hitachi are smarter. Then again, considering the failure rates Phil had with Seagate, I don't know if that's a bad thing.
Perhaps in the end there will be just one company making 7200 RPM laptop sized drives and they will have the market to themselves and Seagate will look at that juicy market and get back into it.
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yes na na na na na na na na heyyyyyy goodbye!!!
I hate seagate they fail and fail and fail because of bad firmware on the hard drives no thank you i say bye bye |
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Brendan
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I think they see the writing on the wall. The are only getting out of the 7k2 market and concentrating on 5k4 and hybrid. They are biding their time until they have a foot in the SSD market. There will probably be a market for large, slow, spinning disks for the foreseeable future.
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marv777
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:05 pm Post subject: Seagate |
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| macmanmacman wrote: | yes na na na na na na na na heyyyyyy goodbye!!!
I hate seagate they fail and fail and fail because of bad firmware on the hard drives no thank you i say bye bye |
Seagate I understand is flopping badly on their hard drives and quality control now. |
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| Smithcraft wrote: | We can only hope that WD and Hitachi are smarter. Then again, considering the failure rates Phil had with Seagate, I don't know if that's a bad thing.
Perhaps in the end there will be just one company making 7200 RPM laptop sized drives and they will have the market to themselves and Seagate will look at that juicy market and get back into it.
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To be fair seagate had the first 500 gb 7200 rpm on the market aug-sept 2008 .. It was terrible but first. 14 purchased dated aug 2008 - feb 2009. 8 bad. then 4 of the 8 replacements were bad. But they have been better as of late.
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jduffy
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:12 am Post subject: Re: Seagate to stop making 2.5" 7200 RPM drives |
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| marv777 wrote: | | I think HD will still be around for a long time. SSD are expensive and people cannot afford to buy them to. |
Companies do not care what some people may not be able to afford. They care about market direction and what makes them money.
HDs are becoming a thing of the past. SSDs are the future. In five years HDs are going to become scarce. In 10 years, spinning HDs will be a thing of the past. |
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marv777
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Seagate to stop making 2.5" 7200 RPM drives |
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| jduffy wrote: | | marv777 wrote: | | I think HD will still be around for a long time. SSD are expensive and people cannot afford to buy them to. |
Companies do not care what some people may not be able to afford. They care about market direction and what makes them money.
HDs are becoming a thing of the past. SSDs are the future. In five years HDs are going to become scarce. In 10 years, spinning HDs will be a thing of the past. |
I sincerely doubt that. I guess you are referring to apple also. |
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jduffy
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Seagate to stop making 2.5" 7200 RPM drives |
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| marv777 wrote: | | jduffy wrote: | | marv777 wrote: | | I think HD will still be around for a long time. SSD are expensive and people cannot afford to buy them to. |
Companies do not care what some people may not be able to afford. They care about market direction and what makes them money.
HDs are becoming a thing of the past. SSDs are the future. In five years HDs are going to become scarce. In 10 years, spinning HDs will be a thing of the past. |
I sincerely doubt that. I guess you are referring to apple also. |
....and you are entitled to your opinion as am I. We'll see. |
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Smithcraft
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I'm split over jduffy's comment.
I certainly agree that companies don't care what people can afford, however, it makes more sense(even to a MBA) to not price your products out of consideration. Nobody wants to get a loan for a hard drive!
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jduffy
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| Smithcraft wrote: | I'm split over jduffy's comment.
I certainly agree that companies don't care what people can afford, however, it makes more sense(even to a MBA) to not price your products out of consideration. Nobody wants to get a loan for a hard drive!
SC |
LOL, well I was not inferring that they price all their products beyond the reach of a majority, what I meant was that a company does not produce and price products that everyone can buy, nor do they continue to produce old and outdated technology because it is cheap and can be afforded by most. |
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