Seagate Finalizes the Acquisition of Samsung's Hard Drive Business

Cristian_25H · Dec 20, 2011, 10:59 AM

Seagate Technology has today announced that it completed the acquisition of Samsung Electronics' hard drive unit. Worth $1.4 billion, this deal covers the assets, infrastructure and employees of Samsung's HDD business and is supposed to boost Seagate's production capacity, R&D strength and customer access in China, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Germany and the Russian Federation.

As part of the agreement, Seagate will be supplying HDDs for Samsung PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics devices, while the South Korean giant will provide Seagate with semiconductor products needed for enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid-state hybrid drives and other products. Moreover, the two companies have signed an extended patent cross-license agreement, and have agreed to collaborate on the development of enterprise storage solutions.

"Together, Seagate and Samsung have aligned our current and future product development efforts and roadmaps in order to accelerate time-to-market efficiency for new products and position us to better address the increasing demands for storage," said Steve Luczo, Seagate chairman, president and CEO. "It is an exciting time in the industry with rapidly evolving opportunities in many markets including mobile computing, cloud computing, and solid state storage."

To ensure a smooth transition, Seagate is going to continue selling certain HDDs under the Samsung brand name for 12 months. Seagate didn't say anything but it's probable the Samsung-branded drives will include a warranty period comparable to that of the latest Barracudas.

qubit · Dec 20, 2011, 11:01 AM

Oh fantastic, first they kill the warranties and then reduce competition even further. No wonder they're pulling stunts like this.

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 11:04 AM

This makes me sad every time I hear about it. I've owned/used WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, and Toshiba (1.8") drives . . . and the Samsung drives were my favorite out of all of them.

cdawall · Dec 20, 2011, 11:07 AM

So now Seagate will own Samsung and Maxtor. As long as they steal some of the good things in the Samsung drives and combine them with the good things kept from Maxtor and Seagate I see no issues. As for warranties I have been buying refurbished drives for a while now so 1 year is all I got anyway.

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

So now Seagate will own Samsung and Maxtor. As long as they steal some of the good things in the Samsung drives and combine them with the good things kept from Maxtor and Seagate I see no issues. As for warranties I have been buying refurbished drives for a while now so 1 year is all I got anyway.

That would be ideal, but the problem I'm concerned about, and I'm sure others are as well, is the reduced competition. If I recall, WD bought, or is in the process of buying, Hitachi's HDD division, so that just leaves us with WD and Seagate to compete against each other. And I wouldn't be surprised if they try to fix prices instead of actually competing.

repman244 · Dec 20, 2011, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theJesus

If I recall, WD bought, or is in the process of buying, Hitachi's HDD division, so that just leaves us with WD and Seagate to compete against each other. And I wouldn't be surprised if they try to fix prices instead of actually competing.

Yes WD bought Hitachi.

I agree with you about the price fixing, there is no competition left. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole warranty thing is because of lack of competition

.

qwerty_lesh · Dec 20, 2011, 11:27 AM

"It is an exciting time in the industry" for him maybe... the jerk, making a killing off of these 'shortages'

buggalugs · Dec 20, 2011, 11:40 AM

So I guess we will see Seagate SSD's using Samsung technology? Could be a good move for Seagate. Without access to a big NAND supplier, seagate will slowly lose business to SSD's

Mussels · Dec 20, 2011, 11:40 AM

i havent bought a single HDD since samsung got bought out, samsung were best by a mile.

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

i havent bought a single HDD since samsung got bought out, samsung were best by a mile.

I agree 100%.

qubit · Dec 20, 2011, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

i havent bought a single HDD since samsung got bought out, samsung were best by a mile.

Yeah, I remember reading a Samsung review years ago and they were described as the dark horse of hard discs, since they were so good, but so underrated.

I had a Samsung 8GB drive from 1999 that was incredibly reliable - even more so given the number of times I'd dropped it and knocked it while it was running. Never had a single error from it. Awesome drive. It was the SV844A.

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qubit

Yeah, I remember reading a Samsung review years ago and they were described as the dark horse of hard discs, since they were so good, but so underrated.

I had a Samsung 8GB drive from 1999 that was incredibly reliable - even more so given the number of times I'd dropped it and knocked it while it was running. Never had a single error from it. Awesome drive. It was the SV844A.

I just googled that model number and all the results were for some sort of makeup

cdawall · Dec 20, 2011, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theJesus

That would be ideal, but the problem I'm concerned about, and I'm sure others are as well, is the reduced competition. If I recall, WD bought, or is in the process of buying, Hitachi's HDD division, so that just leaves us with WD and Seagate to compete against each other. And I wouldn't be surprised if they try to fix prices instead of actually competing.

Toshiba is still out there. My wife has a 2.5" 250GB in her laptop from them. Nothing special about their drives though. There are just as many HDD as CPU or GPU companies. Two big guns and a little guy. There is still going to be a form of competition, but like has been said probably not to the extent we are used too.

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

Toshiba is still out there. My wife has a 2.5" 250GB in her laptop from them. Nothing special about their drives though. There are just as many HDD as CPU or GPU companies. Two big guns and a little guy. There is still going to be a form of competition, but like has been said probably not to the extent we are used too.

Toshiba doesn't really make many desktop drives do they? I know they pretty much own the 1.8" market though.

cdawall · Dec 20, 2011, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theJesus

Toshiba doesn't really make many desktop drives do they? I know they pretty much own the 1.8" market though.

I have not seen one personally since I found a 40GB in my garage.

HeaveNAkirA · Dec 20, 2011, 12:52 PM

I have 3 SG hdds 2x1TB 7200.12 and 1x320GB 7200.7
After 7200.7 all Seagate disk are cr*p my 2x1TB disks get 9% health on SMART with around 1600 bad sectors. I also have few Samsung disks 1TB and 2TB and all i can say is amazing silent, reliable and very fast and that is not all, the price is lowest among the competition!

punani · Dec 20, 2011, 01:08 PM

Nooo! hope they don't mess with the samsung design!!

My samsung drive has worked flawlessly. Bought a seagate external maybe a year back, died after 3 weeks, got angry, went to the seagate forums, lots of people with the same problem and no support...

returned the drive and got me a Lacie neil poulton external after that. The Lacie drive has had a few "clicks of death", but does anyone know if Lacie manufactures their own drives or is it samsung/seagate/WD inside the external box ??

Mussels · Dec 20, 2011, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punani

Nooo! hope they don't mess with the samsung design!!

My samsung drive has worked flawlessly. Bought a seagate external maybe a year back, died after 3 weeks, got angry, went to the seagate forums, lots of people with the same problem and no support...

returned the drive and got me a Lacie neil poulton external after that. The Lacie drive has had a few "clicks of death", but does anyone know if Lacie manufactures their own drives or is it samsung/seagate/WD inside the external box ??

lacie wouldnt even make the box. someone elses drive and controller.

punani · Dec 20, 2011, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

lacie wouldnt even make the box. someone elses drive and controller.

Spent some time googling this with no luck, any idea whos drives/controller they use ( my spidersense says seagate .. ) ?

jsfitz54 · Dec 20, 2011, 01:48 PM

I have a Lacie 2.5 external RIKI that uses a Samsung 640GB drive.

riffraffy · Dec 20, 2011, 03:16 PM

I see it now the Seasam Spincuda.

Major_A · Dec 20, 2011, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theJesus

This makes me sad every time I hear about it. I've owned/used WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, and Toshiba (1.8") drives . . . and the Samsung drives were my favorite out of all of them.

Same here. For whatever reason I've noticed Samsung drives run cooler and are a lot less noisy than the others too. For those reasons I've only ran Samsung drives in my personal machines for the last 5 years.

Out of Seagate and WD I'd rather pickup a Seagate drive. Now that they have Samsung's HDD IP I hope they actually use it.

v12dock · Dec 20, 2011, 06:41 PM

Nothing can touch the F3 Why must there be bad news... : (

theJesus · Dec 20, 2011, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Major_A

Same here. For whatever reason I've noticed Samsung drives run cooler and are a lot less noisy than the others too. For those reasons I've only ran Samsung drives in my personal machines for the last 5 years.

Yeah, my two Samsung drives are constantly <20c and I've never heard a peep out of them. Granted they're 5900 RPM, but I don't notice any difference in speed.

w3b · Dec 21, 2011, 01:03 AM

Samsung HDDs will be sorely missed, I was looking forward to seeing their 1TB per platter models (tech Seagate are now using in their latest series of HDDs)

Dec 20, 2011, 10:59 AM	#1
Cristian_25H Staff Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Still on the East Side Posts: 41 (0.08/day) Thanks: 9 Thanked 962 Times in 486 Posts	Seagate Finalizes the Acquisition of Samsung's Hard Drive Business Seagate Technology has today announced that it completed the acquisition of Samsung Electronics' hard drive unit. Worth $1.4 billion, this deal covers the assets, infrastructure and employees of Samsung's HDD business and is supposed to boost Seagate's production capacity, R&D strength and customer access in China, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Germany and the Russian Federation. As part of the agreement, Seagate will be supplying HDDs for Samsung PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics devices, while the South Korean giant will provide Seagate with semiconductor products needed for enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid-state hybrid drives and other products. Moreover, the two companies have signed an extended patent cross-license agreement, and have agreed to collaborate on the development of enterprise storage solutions. "Together, Seagate and Samsung have aligned our current and future product development efforts and roadmaps in order to accelerate time-to-market efficiency for new products and position us to better address the increasing demands for storage," said Steve Luczo, Seagate chairman, president and CEO. "It is an exciting time in the industry with rapidly evolving opportunities in many markets including mobile computing, cloud computing, and solid state storage." To ensure a smooth transition, Seagate is going to continue selling certain HDDs under the Samsung brand name for 12 months. Seagate didn't say anything but it's probable the Samsung-branded drives will include a warranty period comparable to that of the latest Barracudas.

Dec 20, 2011, 11:01 AM	#2
qubit Overclocked quantum bit Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Quantumville UK Posts: 8,640 (4.34/day) Thanks: 4,169 Thanked 3,301 Times in 1,941 Posts System Specs	Oh fantastic, first they kill the warranties and then reduce competition even further. No wonder they're pulling stunts like this. __________________ Siggie in the post.

System Name:	Quantumville™
Processor:	Intel Core i7-2700K at 4.7GHz (hits 5 gees+ easily)
Motherboard:	Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
Cooling:	Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	16GB (4 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 PC3-12800 C9 1600MHz)
Video Card:	EVGA GTX 590 Classified
Hard Disk:	WD Caviar Black 640GB / WD Caviar Green 2TB x2 in mobo RAID 1
Optical Drive:	Whatever DVD drive I've chucked in there right now
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus VG278HE (144Hz, 3D Vision 2, 1080p, 27") & LG W2363D (120Hz 1080p 23")
Case:	Coolermaster HAF 922
Sound Card:	SoundBlaster X-Fi ExtremeMusic (You ever heard one of these? Wow!)
PSU:	Corsair HX850W
Software:	Window 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Benchmarks:	Yes

Dec 20, 2011, 11:04 AM	#3
theJesus Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canton, Ohio Posts: 3,116 (1.77/day) Thanks: 2,301 Thanked 865 Times in 612 Posts System Specs	This makes me sad every time I hear about it. I've owned/used WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, and Toshiba (1.8") drives . . . and the Samsung drives were my favorite out of all of them. __________________ HEAT “congratulations! you have successfully been inflicted with tpuitis! symptons include: prolonged computer usage, urge to make tpu your homepage, posting at rapid posts-per-day ratios (also known as post whoring), and the urge to waste lots of money on high end computer hardware that you dont need!” -panchoman “Modding to me is something best shared with others.... Kind of like a fine wine, but without the drunk driving arrest and hangovers.” -MKmods “i'm going to punch you in the face now Jesus..” -BumbleBee

System Name:	BEHEMOTH
Processor:	Intel Core i5 2500-K @ 4.6ghz
Motherboard:	ASUS P8Z68-V
Cooling:	Corsair Hydro H100
Memory:	2x4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24 1.5v
Video Card:	EVGA GTX 560 Ti SuperClocked 950/1900/2100 core/shader/mem
Hard Disk:	Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 2TB (OS/pro) \|\| 2x SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 1.5TB RAID0 (storage)
Optical Drive:	Sony Optiarc AD-7240S-0B
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX @2048x1152
Case:	Antec P280
Sound Card:	HRT MusicStreamer II+
PSU:	SeaSonic X650 Gold
Software:	Win7 Ultimate x64

Dec 20, 2011, 11:07 AM	#4
cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,021 (6.43/day) Thanks: 457 Thanked 2,753 Times in 2,222 Posts System Specs	So now Seagate will own Samsung and Maxtor. As long as they steal some of the good things in the Samsung drives and combine them with the good things kept from Maxtor and Seagate I see no issues. As for warranties I have been buying refurbished drives for a while now so 1 year is all I got anyway. __________________

System Name:	Deployment build
Processor:	Phenom II B97@4080mhz 1.6v (24/7 4800mhz max clock)
Motherboard:	Asus Crosshair V Formula
Cooling:	Coolermaster V10 96w TEC, Scientific Rulian fans
Memory:	4x4GB Wintec ONE 1800 9-10-9 1.62v (24/7)
Video Card:	Sapphire 7950 3GB 1150/1400 1.27v
Hard Disk:	2x32GB STT SSD's raid 0, 1TB Samsung F3's, 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11
CRT/LCD Model:	STi 22"
Case:	Thermaltake Commandar MS-I Epic Edition
Sound Card:	E07K USB DAC->Fischer FA-002W High edition
PSU:	Antec TPQ-1200
Software:	windows 7 ultimate x64

System Name:	Main
Processor:	Phenom II 1090T @3.5GHz NB @ 2.8GHz (Undervolted)
Motherboard:	ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
Cooling:	Air
Memory:	Corsair 4x2GB 1600MHz
Video Card:	Sapphire HD5870
Hard Disk:	Adaptec 2405 SAS controller> Hitachi SAS 15k 450GB\|F3 1TB\|Seagate 2TB\|WD Black 2TB
Optical Drive:	Plextor PX-880SA
CRT/LCD Model:	HP ZR24w
Case:	Fractal Define XL Black
Sound Card:	Asus Xonar Essence ST (2xTHS4032)>Sennheiser HD600
PSU:	Corsair HX850
Software:	Windows 7 Pro x64

Dec 20, 2011, 11:27 AM	#7
qwerty_lesh Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 515 (0.24/day) Thanks: 36 Thanked 42 Times in 35 Posts System Specs	"It is an exciting time in the industry" for him maybe... the jerk, making a killing off of these 'shortages'

Processor:	3930K
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3
Cooling:	Noctua NH-U12P SE2011
Memory:	16GB Kingston Value DDR3 1333Mhz CL9
Video Card:	Sapphire 5870 1GB
Hard Disk:	1x 120GB Intel 520 + 2 500GB Seagate
CRT/LCD Model:	3x X243BW@5760x1080
Case:	Antec P182
PSU:	Antec TruePower Trio 650
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

Dec 20, 2011, 11:40 AM	#8
buggalugs Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 729 (0.41/day) Thanks: 25 Thanked 112 Times in 71 Posts System Specs	So I guess we will see Seagate SSD's using Samsung technology? Could be a good move for Seagate. Without access to a big NAND supplier, seagate will slowly lose business to SSD's __________________ Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe /Intel 3770K@4.4Ghz/ TRUE Cooler /Corsair Dom 2X4GB 1866Mhz /Intel 520 240GB SSD/ / Samsung 1TB F3 HD / MSI 680 Lightning /Corsair AX850 PSU/ Aurora 570 Case /Samsung S23A950D 120Hz Monitor/AudioEngine A2 Speakers/Osmium Aivia Mechanical Keyboard/Mionix Naos 5000 mouse/Pioneer Blu-Ray 206BK

Processor:	Intel i7 3770K
Motherboard:	Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe
Cooling:	Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120
Memory:	Corsair Dominator 1866Mhz 2X4GB
Video Card:	Msi 680 Lightning
Hard Disk:	Intel 520 240Gb/Samsung F3 1TB
Optical Drive:	Pioneer Blu-Ray 206BK
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung S23A950D
Case:	Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570
Sound Card:	Onboard Realtek
PSU:	Corsair AX850
Software:	Windows 7 x64

Dec 20, 2011, 11:40 AM	#9
Mussels Doctor Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Bendigo, Australia (NOT THE USA) Posts: 34,544 (10.98/day) Thanks: 3,699 Thanked 8,686 Times in 6,387 Posts System Specs	i havent bought a single HDD since samsung got bought out, samsung were best by a mile. __________________ Edumacational thread about PC Audio My external HDD's.5x samsung 1TB + 2x Seagate 1.5TB = 8 TB external storage 32 Bit OS vs 64 bit OS information How to get hardware accelerated H264 playback (DXVA) Netbook Owners United!

System Name:	Real Men use Real Cores!
Processor:	Phenom II x6 1090T: 3600Mhz undervolted (NB+HT at 2.6)
Motherboard:	Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5
Cooling:	Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme (Lapped + ducted)
Memory:	8GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 - 1600Mhz 7-7-7-20 1.65V
Video Card:	AMD Radeon 5870 1GB Crossfire
Hard Disk:	Intel 520 SSD (120GB), 500GB OS + 18TB of storage (mostly external)
Optical Drive:	Samsung Blu Ray drive (SH-B083A)
CRT/LCD Model:	23.6" Samsung 1080P / Samsung 40" HDTV - 1360x768P
Case:	Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced (non window)
Sound Card:	Auzentech X-Mystique (Logitech Z5500D + sennheiser HD555 + RE2's)
PSU:	Corsair HX 1000W
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - kaspersky internet security 2011
Benchmarks:	Laptop: AMD A6 APU 1.4GHz @2.2GHz quad core + APU crossfire. 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD

Dec 20, 2011, 12:52 PM	#16
HeaveNAkirA Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I have 3 SG hdds 2x1TB 7200.12 and 1x320GB 7200.7 After 7200.7 all Seagate disk are cr*p my 2x1TB disks get 9% health on SMART with around 1600 bad sectors. I also have few Samsung disks 1TB and 2TB and all i can say is amazing silent, reliable and very fast and that is not all, the price is lowest among the competition!

Dec 20, 2011, 01:08 PM	#17
punani Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Finland Posts: 110 (0.07/day) Thanks: 11 Thanked 28 Times in 16 Posts System Specs	Nooo! hope they don't mess with the samsung design!! My samsung drive has worked flawlessly. Bought a seagate external maybe a year back, died after 3 weeks, got angry, went to the seagate forums, lots of people with the same problem and no support... returned the drive and got me a Lacie neil poulton external after that. The Lacie drive has had a few "clicks of death", but does anyone know if Lacie manufactures their own drives or is it samsung/seagate/WD inside the external box ?? __________________

System Name:	"millaväddze"
Processor:	Core i7 920 @ 3,6
Motherboard:	Asus P6T
Cooling:	Zalman CNPS 9900 led
Memory:	6GB DDR3 OCZ 1600mhz
Video Card:	ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU II
Hard Disk:	1Tb + 200Gb
Optical Drive:	LG SUPER MULTI !!
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 226CW
Case:	Cooler Master Cosmos 1000
PSU:	850W Corsair
Software:	Windows 7 Pro x64
Benchmarks:	climax achieved with 3Dporn 06

Dec 20, 2011, 01:48 PM	#20
jsfitz54 Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 771 (0.72/day) Thanks: 192 Thanked 178 Times in 154 Posts System Specs	I have a Lacie 2.5 external RIKI that uses a Samsung 640GB drive.

Processor:	Intel i7 970 // Intel i7 2600K
Motherboard:	Asus Rampage III Formula , Bios 0903 // Asus P8P67 Deluxe , UEFI 3602
Cooling:	Zalman CNPS9900MaxB // Zalman CNPS11X
Memory:	GSkill Trident DDR2000 (F3-16000CL9T-6GBTD) // GSkill Ripjaws DDR2133 (F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM)
Video Card:	EVGA GTX460SC 1GB (Driver beta 320) // EVGA GTX460SC
Hard Disk:	PlextorM5PX 256GB FW1.05 OS drive,WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS // PlexM3 256 FW1.07, Samsung HD103SI
Optical Drive:	Asus dvdrw 24B1ST, LG WH12LS30 // Asus 24B1ST
CRT/LCD Model:	HP w2207h
Case:	CoolerMaster Stacker 830se // Lian Li PC-9F
Sound Card:	onboard
PSU:	Corsair HX850 // OCZ ZX850W
Software:	Windows 7 Pro 64

Dec 20, 2011, 03:16 PM	#21
riffraffy Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26 (0.01/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	evil empire I see it now the Seasam Spincuda.

System Name:	2600k
Processor:	i7 2600K
Motherboard:	Intel DZ68BC
Cooling:	Asetek 550LC
Memory:	16GB
Video Card:	GTX 570
Hard Disk:	120GB Agility 3/2TB WD Caviar Black x 2/Intel 311 (Cache Drive)
Optical Drive:	LG Blu-Ray ROM
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 2253BW (1680x1050)
Case:	Lian Li PC-8FIR (Silver)
Sound Card:	X-Fi Titanium Fata1ity
PSU:	Cooler Master Silent Pro M 1000W
Software:	Win 7 Pro x64 SP1
Benchmarks:	Logitech G500 \| Razer Lycosa Mirror \| Logitech Z-5300

Dec 20, 2011, 06:41 PM	#23
v12dock Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 1,285 (0.80/day) Thanks: 280 Thanked 240 Times in 160 Posts System Specs	Nothing can touch the F3 Why must there be bad news... : (

System Name:	Compute 0 / Compute 1
Processor:	i7 720 QM / i5 750 @ 4.2GHz
Motherboard:	Toshiba knows / Gigabyte P55A-UD4P
Cooling:	Shitty laptop cooling / Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	DDR3 1066Mhz x 6GB / DDR2 1600Mhz x 4GB
Video Card:	Geforce 360M / Geforce 470
Hard Disk:	60GB SSD + 320GB HDD / 80GB SSD + 1TB HDD
Optical Drive:	Fancy BluRay Drive / DVD drive
CRT/LCD Model:	17.3" 1080P / 23" Acer 1080P
Case:	This cool looking laptop one
PSU:	Powerbrick / TX750
Software:	Windows 7 64-Bit

Dec 21, 2011, 01:03 AM	#25
w3b Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Australia Posts: 66 (0.11/day) Thanks: 446 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts System Specs	Samsung HDDs will be sorely missed, I was looking forward to seeing their 1TB per platter models (tech Seagate are now using in their latest series of HDDs)

System Name:	Black n Blue
Processor:	Intel Core i7 930 (running at stock)
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5
Cooling:	Noctua NH-U12P SE2
Memory:	OCZ PC3-12800 Platinum 3 x 2GB - OCZ3P1600VL6GK
Video Card:	Sapphire ATi Radeon HD5850 Toxic 1GB (765/1125)
Hard Disk:	OS: Samsung F3 1TB HD103SJ, Data: 2 x Samsung HD203WI
Optical Drive:	Samsung SH-B083A [Blu-Ray Read, DVD-RW combo drive]
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung SyncMaster 2443BW+
Case:	Antec 1200 [original version]
Sound Card:	Onboard (Realtek ALC889A)
PSU:	Antec CP 850w PSU [Antec Signature in larger box according to JonnyGuru]
Software:	MS Win7 SP1 x64 OEM [yes it's legit =P ]
Benchmarks:	No world records here, just a new box I bought after sticking with an Intel P4 socket 478 PC (with n

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
western digital bought hitachi's hard drive business	Easy Rhino	Storage	2	Mar 7, 2011 05:50 PM
Report: Hitachi to Exit Small Hard Drive Business	malware	News	2	Dec 31, 2007 05:01 AM
Seagate to Refund 5% of Hard Drive Prices	Jimmy 2004	News	38	Nov 9, 2007 08:46 AM
Seagate Releases the First-ever 750GB External Hard Drive	malware	News	6	Apr 29, 2006 06:58 AM