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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by andrewfelix on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @03:10AM (#3376792)
In the short term this is good for Seagate. In the long term though, I think this is good for Samsung. More and more of our memory needs are being met by online storage.

Sure we'll need NAND going into the future. But are we going to need it in the quantities that we currently demand when cloud storage is becoming more and more popular?

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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by bentlegen on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @03:35AM (#3376824)
Online storage providers still need to purchase hard disks.
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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by andrewfelix on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @02:57PM (#3378870)
Online storage providers don't use NAND, and they won't be consuming drives at the same rate as consumers.
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