Hard disk a brother Seagate or was the main reason for the tablet computer to block the hard disk industry

More and more flash memory technology to replace the hard disk storage trends, the old hard drive business Seagate into the whirlpool of acquisitions, the latest news is that Bain Capital has withdrawn TGPCapital joint acquisition of Seagate privatization of private equity bid. Seagate’s potential buyers include Western Digital, Samsung and even Toshiba.

The CPU has been developing along the pendulum pattern of Moore’s Law, but the hard drive has been tepid and lacks major innovations. In addition to the Apple iPod’s popularity of four or five years ago, the micro-drive industry became a reality for a year or two. A large storage technology flash memory behind him, has not entered the mainstream of consumer electronics. The advent of the iPad using flash memory technology is even more worrying for the hard disk industry.

Seagate’s acquisition of the hard disk market by its rivals is the Western Digital, Seagate and Hitachi. The data shows that Seagate's hard disk market share is 30%, and its share in the enterprise storage market is close to 60%.

However, such a world's largest hard disk provider is currently negotiating acquisitions with several investment companies. But Bain Capital, which was previously favored, has lost interest in the joint acquisition of Seagate with TPG Capital. Several new bidders are emerging, and this new strategic buyer is not an investment company but a competitor for the hard disk industry.

As the entire consumer electronics industry transitions to a mobile Internet strategy, hard disk manufacturers are in an increasingly difficult position. From the beginning of the year, Western Digital and Seagate’s stock price continued to fall. Western Digital has fallen by 35% and Seagate is not optimistic. Seagate’s $2.7 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 was at the company’s own expected lower limit.

iPad hardened the hard disk industry in the bid for Seagate's list, including Toshiba, Samsung's two Japanese and Korean Department of storage.

Both of these memory vendors are giants of flash memory chips. In fact, in the competition of storage technology, the technical race of mechanical hard disk and SSD flash disk hard disk is the fiercest. When mechanical hard disk can no longer be expanded at low cost, how long does it take for SSD flash disk hard disk to reduce the price to be more competitive and become competitive? focus.

The advent of the iPad has made the hard disk industry worse, and John Koeni, CEO of Western Digital, a hard drive manufacturer, has publicly admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad have hindered the development of the hard disk industry, especially the development of low-end products. During the quarter, iPad sales may lead to a 10%-20% drop in sales of low-end laptops and netbooks. However, hard disk industry big brothers still believe that for large-capacity storage business, the hard disk is the most suitable solution.

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