While continuing to denounce this technology and to bring lawsuits against various manufacturers, Seagate announced that its first SSD disks will be available during 2009.
These disks are intended to be for the professionals, the mark considers that the general public market is too far away from maturity. The cost per GB will be too expensive (this is true) and they do not see this market developing for a very long time.
As a follow up, and to show that traditional disks still have a broad path of advances, they announced that the first discs 3,5" of 2 TB will also arrive in 2009.
We should state that for reasons unknown to us, manufacturers of disks have decided to put an end to the war of capacity and had nicely fixed all to a maximum of 1 TB. However, with the most recent platters containing 334 GB of data, it would be possible for them to immediately propose disks of more than 1,5 TB.
One is unaware of if Seagate will buy the chips needed for the manufacture of SSD disks or they will build their own production factories. The second solution would be better on the long run but extremely expensive and difficult to show a profit compared to new competitors like Intel or Samsung where it is a core activity.
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