Seagate announced SSDs and 2TB hdd
Posted June 4th, 2008 by Alex Ion
Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate, says they are gradually planning a turnaround of its solid-state drives (SSDs). The company will build solid-state drives by 2009 initially for enterprise-class consumers, who most likely need very high-speed storage disks no matter what the price is. Seagate is also planning a 2TB hard drive next year.
However, Watkins considers that a big portion of the market is not ready for solid-state drives, yet. Moreover, as a new product, SSDs may have to face the question of reliability. Pricing won’t be reasonable for a lot of users for the next few years. As solid-state drives eventually lose the capability to write to each storage cell, many users may need to replace the drive sooner than expected.
Enterprise clients may want to use traditional hard disks instead of SSDs for long-term storage use and leave the SSDs for speed-focused tasks only. Seagate is considered comparatively tardy to embracing SSDs, because Samsung, Toshiba, SanDisk, and many other storage companies have already promoted their technologies.
