Chinese company interested in American Hard Disk Drive manufacturer

An unnamed Chinese company has expressed interest in purchasing an American Hard Disk Drive manufacturer, which has predictably sparked the interest of the American Government ever paranoid about technology "security." Mr. Bill "Seagate is for porn" Watkins disclosed this overture from an unnamed company, eloquently stating that "The U.S. government is freaking out" whilst saying that Seagate was not the target company -- although apparently the company would find it hard to refuse a generous offer from a Chinese company. In the end though the whole mini-ruckus seems much ado about nothing: the New York Times seems to think that the Chinese will only go through with a bid if it doesn't ruffle the feathers in Washington, and one can only imagine the resulting "ruffling" if this high tech purchase rumor transitioned from mere conjecture to the realms of possibility. And all this over something as seemingly trivial as storage.

[m16 @ Aug 26th 2007 5:31PM]

seagate is already made in China...

[m16 @ Aug 26th 2007 5:33PM]

and Singapore.

[pr_master @ Aug 26th 2007 5:54PM]

Who knows maybe that hard drive company makes
powerful hard drives for army.

[rokerovakero @ Aug 26th 2007 6:31PM]

lol, that picture is so funny, and SO TRUE!! lol

[humpty @ Aug 26th 2007 6:32PM]

Its better to invest in flash memory companies.. in 5 years, hdds will go the way of hd-dvd.

[Cam @ Aug 26th 2007 7:13PM]

Hd-Dvd has not been released for 5 years, and as the format war is still raging your basing this on what? personal opinion, sure flash memory is popular at the moment, but answer me this, don't people still use cd's and records to enjoy their music even with alternate technologies, sure it might not apply but there are lots of nostalgic people out there, heck I wrote this on my pc with paper tape :P

[teej @ Aug 27th 2007 5:17PM]

blu-ray*. you meant blu-ray.

[JJ @ Aug 26th 2007 7:07PM]

WOW! What is wrong with HD DVDs???

[Kyle Interra @ Aug 26th 2007 7:21PM]

It doesn't sound as cool as BlueRay.

>_>

[b @ Aug 26th 2007 9:41PM]

^^^^ It's BluRay you schmuck. good day. O_o

SDVD till a format goes bye bye. as for the article. I could care less as long as prices keep dropping :)

[mwc @ Aug 26th 2007 9:46PM]

Lenova, Seagate, ... could be the beginning of an interesting trend

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 26th 2007 9:51PM]

I for one do not welcome our new Chinese overlords.

[amlevy @ Aug 27th 2007 1:52AM]

Where do you come up with the warlord crap! Brush up on your Chinese history budy. The Chinese overthrew the overloards after the fall of the Qing dynasty. Now they are just like your average country wanting to develope and be able to have all the comforts and wealth that us Americans are fortunate to have.

[dextro @ Aug 27th 2007 9:33AM]

UOU! Can't you get a joke when you read it?

[Kent @ Aug 27th 2007 12:36AM]

I've bought three external seagate drives in the last 15 months and all have either totally or partially crapped out, so if the Chinese make new ones with lead or something, it won't make that much difference. They'll suck just a tad more.

[Potenza @ Aug 27th 2007 3:07AM]

Anyone who disregards this news as nothing should probably read up on current events concerning China (it's scary stuff).

[daddycool @ Aug 27th 2007 6:13AM]

Fuck China.

[Marky @ Aug 27th 2007 6:23AM]

Always complaining to other countries about open and free markets for businessness but the US is one of the most protective markets in the world. Another example of old thinking. If the product is made in China and the then what harm?

[NickF @ Aug 27th 2007 5:30PM]

that dude kinda looks like Mike Meyers (aka Austin Powers)... I

[ALex @ Aug 28th 2007 9:45AM]

OMG... HDD made of lead???

[Getefix @ Sep 26th 2007 8:26AM]

Lead and cardboard. And they´re marketed as edible!

Just had the 2nd out of 3 of my Segate drives crap out on me today. Kinda glad, it was as loud as a wood-chipper. Kept thinking of China doing the Fargo scene to the U.S.