Seagate, Western Digital (nyse: WDC - news - people ), Samsung (other-otc: SSNLF - news - people ) and Hitachi (nyse: HIT - news - people ) dominate the business.
Western Digital Corp. (WDC) : A lot of investors are sour on this California-based firm, a longtime leader in the hard drive and digital storage business, because of the shift away from hard drives toward solid-state and flash drives.
Seagate (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) shares are trading higher this morning after Citigroup analyst Joe Yoo picked up coverage of the hard-disk drive makers with Buy ratings on both.