Re: news is that they still have two hard drive plants
BS.
I bought a no-name 19" LCD in 2002 and it was superb. It's still in use every day connected to my second notebook. And yet all Samsung LCDs between 2004 and 2011 died withing two years because of bad quality. True is that LCDs quickly took of in 2002/2003, the same happened in the same year with USB thumb drives that replaced floppy disks.
I sincerely hope HDDs stay around at least another 20 years. SSDs simply die way too quickly, and HDDs last at least 10 years. So as backup media and to store big files like movies and huge photos, there is nothing viable but HDDs. Also the cloud server farms are mainly running on HDDs, at least Amazon, Google and M$ - behind the hood.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
