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    Seagate bought LSI...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Marecki_clf, May 30, 2014.

  1. Marecki_clf

    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    Marksman30k Notebook Deity

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    8 years ago, Seagate could've killed the fledgling SSD industry to preserve their HDD business with this maneuver. But now, Samsung and Intel won't let that happen. Its good because I'm interested to see what LSI can achieve with Seagate's engineering and manufacturing resources.
     
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    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    I think that it's not intended by Seagate to be a move to kill the SSD industry. It's more of a "big fish swallowing a smaller fish in a desperate fight for survival" kind of move. I am curious, what will Seagate be able to accomplish on the storage media market with this acquisition.
     
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    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Sandforce+Seagate = a perfect marriage of two scary storage subsystem partners.

    (And one I won't get in the middle of... probably ever).


    Yeah; not even LSI could make SF a real controller (even though Intel has... though their (Intel's) goal has always been the right one though: usable performance, not just high 'scores'. Of course, I and many others paid handsomely for that privilege, which I thank Intel for giving me the opportunity to do).
     
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