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The IBM DeathStar fiasco should only be mentioned in a historical context these days.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=ag6l6LSfAjGQ&refer=asia]]>Oct 2nd 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
At one time, around a third of all failed hard disks I had in for repair were Western Digital Caviar drives, most of them had the same failure mode too which involved the drive repeatedly smashing its heads off the stops at irregular intervals, fun -.o]]>Oct 2nd 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
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To say nothing of Hideki's problem (that line may have been defective, it happens) it's about time that online retailers of computer parts started marking their boxes as fragile. When the box containing my ram, HDD, motherboard, etc came from UPS, the driver basically dropped it from how high it was when he was carrying, down to the hard concrete ground. Unfortunately, my 40 pound steel Antec 1200 was also in the box with those light components. Luckily nothing was damaged, but I could have cried when he did it. Had it said Fragile, I doubt he would have been so negligent (or if hadn't weighed 40 pounds, and he hadn't been out of shape and over encumbered by a mere 40 pounds). ]]>Oct 3rd 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 3rd 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/You're the first one to bring up Apple in this article!]]>Oct 2nd 2008 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
Fujitsu's Drives are legendary for their performance, they will be missed. ]]>Oct 3rd 2008 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
I think Fujitsu sees the writing on the wall and SSD's will be the future of high performance storage which has been their forte` since the beginning of their presence in the marketplace. My guess is they are changing their focus over to silicon and they won't be totally absent from the shifting marketplace. ]]>Oct 3rd 2008 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
It's not monopolization, it's consolidation. There's a difference. As you noted, WD will have 30% of the market if this goes through. Seagate has 35%. That still leaves 35% of the market unaccounted for. Definitely not a monopoly.

Now if we saw Seagate buy WD, or WD buy Seagate, then we could claim it's getting to be a monopoly.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
How does a reduction in competitors benefit the consumer? If that were the case, why don't we just have one company make everything and be done with it.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
Truth is- WD had green disks available before anyone else. That I like.

Sometimes economies of scale do benefit the consumer, but competition keeps margins low.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 2nd 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/
Also does Fujitsu make any desktop drives? I thought they exited that business because the lack of "profits" in it]]>Oct 2nd 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/]]>Oct 2nd 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Oct 3rd 2008 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/fujitsu-to-hand-over-hard-drive-division-self-respect-to-wester/Fujitsu is launghing this new drive

Eco-friendly Hard Disk Drives by Fujitsu, Logitec


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