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Seagate talks SSDs
NOT ONLY WILL Seagate make the move to Solid State Drives (SSDs) in 2009, it may also make them its core business, replacing rotational hard disks as the company’s bestsellers.
Speaking to CNET, Seagate’s senior manager of market development, Rich Vignes, noted that the first step was to persuade people of the reliability of solid state drives by establishing an industry standard for endurance and life expectancy.
Once that mission is accomplished, Vignes is optimistic about SSD’s success, and the analysts seem to be on his side.
The company reckons it has enough experience to enter the SSD market due to its many years spent noodling about with error correction.
Seagate will initially test the waters by flogging SSDs to the big fish, enterprise customers, before beginning to flood the consumer market.
But there are plenty more fish in the SSD sea, including Intel which has already started shipping SSDs aimed at both consumers and enterprise. Samsung is another big player in the consumer space, already selling its SSDs to Apple and Dell and having announced its SSDs have also been chosen by HP for its ProLiant blade servers.
But Vignes isn’t put off by the competition. "While for some companies, it's a new market and a new product, for us, it's an existing market, new product," he noted. µ
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If SSD was made to specifications of Spcae telescopes original computer, now defunct, they'd last twelve years. at least in space. So why dosn't someone try to beyond 6 month life reported for some SSD Units. Like Real Army Christmas Greeting Units, 32 Gb seems optimum. Start My Own Hardrive Line:Kingsten. drashek
Who IS this moron????
What Drashek said!!!! Why no talky about probable time to live pre-programmed 'Your Data is Bye Bye' solly cholly buy again next time new SSD with projector optional built in OK prace owdah cledit card number>? It is like they no wantee us archive data more than so so ok sometimes but not forever (even have invoked cosmic rays for God's sakes.....) Har Har foorish Gawkazoids. Ram in 286 still worky plus 20 years now but rook out SSD not last velly rong time. Why oh Intel say so cuz I/O. Hardy Hardy ruck ruck ruck. this be better scam than ink jet plinters. Ahem. Bite now, suckers.
So Seagate jumping into the SSD market - just like Intel. Anyone actually seen an Intel SSD to buy as seems nothing more that a paper launch.
or mascot?
In over 15 years of being on the internet, I have never & I repeat never read such incoherent gibberish. I can only assume he is trying to be funny or similar. (I hope so anyway)
What Xybyrgy said. And also, what Drashek said.