What's wrong with the hard drive industry?

[toastedzergling]

Read the story that IBM lost $500M on hard drive business in the past 5 quarters, both Maxtor and Western Digistal are losing money too, and so do venerable companies like AMD, Micron. Is the PC business in a such a slump that only Microsoft and Intel can still squeeze profits? I hope this won't be long.

[Penguin4x4]

IBM lost moolah due to the fact of its Deathstar Hard Drives(60GXP and 75GXP Line.) So they sold there entire hard drive line to Hitachi. The problem, IMHO, is American companies cannont even begin to compete with Eastern companies, i.e. Mitsubishi, Daewoo, Hitachi, Panasonic, etc., which manufacturers not only consumer electronics, but also industrial equipment, automobiles, machienery, even oil tankers, not just electronic goodies. :)

[Da Whip]

Just think what the video cards would be like if nVidia and ATI were as large as Samsung, Hitachi and the like.

[Maxvla]

What's wrong with the hard drive industry?
they are making larger drives... but they are as slow as ever. new hope seems to be in the ram based hd's. 100mb/s transfer... yum. true ata100.