• Nora (She/Her)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    I’ve seen this claim twice now in this thread that WD bought Seagate; and I’m not saying you’re wrong, bit I legitimately don’t see this info anywhere online and I’m pretty sure neither owns the other.

    Mind, I’m on mobile so it’s hard to verify things but, I suspect there’s some confusion here.

    • BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      Seagate and Western digital are two seperate companies. You’re correct in that neither own or are affiliated with the other.

      There were talks of a merger for years starting back in ~2014, but that fell through.

      I did just find out that Seagate is the parent company to LaCie though. They used to (probably still do) make some decently tough external haard drives.