Ouch! Western Digital pays Seagate.

**drednot57** · 11-21-2011, 03:42 PM

WD pays Seagate $0.5B in lawsuit award. Will Seagate end up with harddrive monopoly? WD taking some serious blows.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/seagat...81?tag=nl.e550

**alarson** · 11-21-2011, 03:48 PM

From what i read that isnt necessarily final yet, but even if it is, WD has cash of 3.5 bil.

**FarminCy** · 11-21-2011, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by drednot57

WD pays Seagate $0.5B in lawsuit award. Will Seagate end up with harddrive monopoly? WD taking some serious blows.

Seagate wins $525 million from Western Digital | ZDNet

I first read that as $.58, and thought who cares, a company has to pay another one 58 cents.

Man I need to get some glasses.

**drednot57** · 11-21-2011, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by FarminCy

I first read that as $.58, and thought who cares, a company has to pay another one 58 cents.

Man I need to get some glasses.

**drednot57** · 11-21-2011, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by alarson

From what i read that isnt necessarily final yet, but even if it is, WD has cash of 3.5 bil.

And draining fast w/o product to sell due to floods in Thailand where their main plants are. Even a huge corporation like WD can take only so many blows before getting into serious financial trouble.

**c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s** · 11-21-2011, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by drednot57

WD pays Seagate $0.5B in lawsuit award. Will Seagate end up with harddrive monopoly? WD taking some serious blows.

Seagate wins $525 million from Western Digital | ZDNet

The company that corners the HD market will be whichever one can mass produce an inexpensive/reliable solid state drive first.

**brett108** · 11-21-2011, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s

The company that corners the HD market will be whichever one can mass produce an inexpensive/reliable solid state drive first.

Reliable? i have not seen any problems with their reliability compared to normal replacment drives. it is the fact that you get a a lot less for the price compared to the normal spinning drives. This will take a while to come down, just like BD drives. And less competition would only lengthen this time frame.

**c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s** · 11-22-2011, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by brett108

Reliable? i have not seen any problems with their reliability compared to normal replacment drives. it is the fact that you get a a lot less for the price compared to the normal spinning drives. This will take a while to come down, just like BD drives. And less competition would only lengthen this time frame.

Agreed. They seem to be very reliable. What I should have said is that if they can cheaply mass produce them without losing reliability then they will dominate the market.

**brett108** · 11-22-2011, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s

Agreed. They seem to be very reliable. What I should have said is that if they can cheaply mass produce them without losing reliability then they will dominate the market.

Yes. But as has been reported, competition is what is going to drive down the cost of SSDs. Until then, I am going to get that 500 GB Momentus XT Hybrid SSD, and get 90% of the performance at 1/10 the cost per GB.