Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by segfaultbuserr on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:42AM (#22907654)

Wikipedia has a great diagram showing the process of hard disk drive manufacturer consolidation that tells a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Driv...

Now it's a perfect oligopoly: Seagate, WD, and Toshiba, just like the stories from many other industries.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by rasz on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:23AM (#22908346)

Its a guaranteed 30% profit margin industry with very high patent moat. No incentives to change anything.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by chx on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:53PM (#22909013)

> Its a guaranteed 30% profit margin industry

While I was surprised by that figure https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/news/news-archive/seagate-tech... this corroborates, with margin figures indeed roughly 30%-ish.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by noisem4ker on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:30PM (#22908793)

The article mentions thin margins and declining volume due to SSDs. I wonder where the truth lies.

Anyway, I'd rather data-starve for a couple years and save up for a big SSD rather than feed those responsible for such consumer-hostile practices.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by folmar on Saturday April 18, 2020 @04:23PM (#22910789)

Not that SSD vendors are much better... see other comments in this post.

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