Guess what brand will be new HDD in Mac Pro 2012 ?

[Spacedust]

Currently for 3,5" drives there will be only two companies:

Seagate=Maxtor, Samsung, Quantum
Toshiba=Western Digital, Hitachi, Fujitsu, IBM

I think they were sticking with WD last time, so they will go for Toshiba drives.

Mac Pro 2006 - Seagate 250 GB
Mac Pro 2007 - Seagate 250 GB
Mac Pro 2008 - Seagate 320 GB
Mac Pro 2009 - Western Digital 640 GB
Mac Pro 2010 - Western Digital 1 TB

 

[Umbongo]

You've misunderstood the news on the WD/Toshiba thing. Seagate and Western Digital are still the major players, Toshiba are now able to enter the market with the assets they have received from WD.

 

[Spacedust]

You've misunderstood the news on the WD/Toshiba thing. Seagate and Western Digital are still the major players, Toshiba are now able to enter the market with the assets they have received from WD.

All 3,5" WD drives will be now probably branded as Toshiba or remain as WD.

 

[derbothaus]

Maxtor.

 

[xgman]

ipple ..........

 

[Umbongo]

All 3,5" WD drives will be now probably branded as Toshiba or remain as WD.

You seem to be implying that Toshiba and WD's HDD businesses are one entity which isn't the case. There are three 3.5" HDD suppliers for desktops and enterprise. Seagate, Toshiba and WD. All three will compete with each other. Toshiba's drives aren't just going to be re-branded WD drives.

 

[ssgbryan]

The HD is irrelevant for me. That sucker will be replaced with an SSD when I take it out of the box.

 

[nanofrog]

Whatever's cheapest that fits their requirements from available brands and models.