We're firmly of the belief that SSDs are our future and Samsung would seem to agree. The Korean electronics giant has just announced that it's selling its hard disk drive-manufacturing arm to Seagate Technology for a neat $1.375 billion in equal measures of cash and stocks. As a result, Samsung Electronics will own approximately 9.6 percent of Seagate and get to nominate one new member to join Seagate's Board of Directors, while the companies have further agreed to deepen their strategic relationship with related cross-licensing and supply stipulations. Samsung has agreed to provision Seagate's solid state drives with NAND flash memory, a gesture which will be reciprocated by Seagate fu
