Talk:List of defunct hard disk manufacturers

message: ::Very good! But the diagram cannot be updated quickly. I have made some ASCII charts which can be updated as the years roll by (see the "future" acquistions at the bottom!)-Polytope4d (talk) 06:51, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History charts 

message: It would be nice to have a date when the companies entered the market as well.--78.48.142.205 (talk) 06:53, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a bad idea.  If you didn't already know, we do have history of hard disk drives.  --Juventas (talk) 02:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did they start? 

message: What will happen next? WD acquires Toshiba in 2015, Seagate acquires WD in 2020. Seagate goes bankrupt by 2025. End of PC Industry. (Sorry!)-59.95.25.181 (talk) 05:44, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Future 

message: For consistency, I removed Friden since they never manufactured a disk drive in the sense that it shipped.  There are others that attempted to develop products but died or were acquired before shipment and they are not listed; best example CoData which became Conner.
I removed Calux since there is no reliable source.  Any oral history needs to be validated since it is the current recollections of events many years in the past and subject to recollection error.  I did do a fair bit of searching and can find no mention of Calux.  Tom94022 (talk) 23:09, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Friden and Calux 

message: Porter is cited in this article but there is nothing in his 20 page speach that has any relevance to the article's subject.  His slide six and discussion thereof is about all defunct disk drive companies, including optical and floppy companies.  There is no attempt to distinguish between such companis so as such it is not relevent to this article which is clearly limited to defunct HDD manufacturers.  Also his count is off, since there are more than 300 companies listed.  Given we have an on the subject RS in Maleval and others there seems to me to be no reason to keep Porter in this article. Tom94022 (talk) 04:29, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Porter relevent to this article? 

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thread_title:  New HDD manufacturers from Eastern Block