2012: And Then There Were Three
By 2012, the world's hard drive industry was whittled down to three vendors:
* Seagate, which acquired the hard drive division of Samsung;
* Western Digital, which acquired Hitachi GST;
* Toshiba, which in 2009 acquired Fujitsu's hard drive business.
That's a steep drop for an industry which has seen upwards of 200 hard drive manufacturers come and go over the years.
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