Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LaCie does not manufacture disk drives. They buy disk drives and manufacture pretty enclosures to put them in. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Seagate disks inside a LaCie enclosure. In 2008 there remain only Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, and Hitachi making hard drives for desktop computers. Maxtor is now just a Seagate label, and Hitachi bought IBM's disk business. Toshiba makes laptop drives and specialty drives, and Fujitsu makes laptop drives and data center drives. That's pretty much it. I don't think this list is ever going to get any longer. Within 5-10 years, solid-state flash-based devices will have forced hard drives to retreat to the high end, where they will hang on the way vacuum-tube amplifiers have. Once I am convinced that a disk design is good, I buy a lot of them and then put them in my own enclosures (or not; sometimes I don't use enclosures). These days I buy only Seagate ST3750630AS SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 750GB disks. I have at least 12 of them.