Fujitsu not Interested by SSD yet

In a recent interview, Joel Hagberg, Fujitsu business development VP, announced that the company has no short-term plans to create solid-state hard drives (SSDs) under its own brand name. To justify such statement, he went on and reviewed specification and performance of current SSDs models:
- most SSDs are very efficient for random access for reading data, but performance drops significantly when writing or reading large amounts of data in a row.
- power consumption would be reduced at best by 5%. Something similar to the value we recently reported (here)
- still limited writing cycle, some memory chips not allowing for than 10000 cycles.
If Joel Hagberg did not unveil any new or questionable points, he made it clear that while SSDs might indeed be a future solution for computer as a storage unit, the current technology states does not make it a true viable option. As the power consumption was the first marketing factor for SSD manufacturers, one will have to wait for more substantial power saving to really use these parameters as a main argument.
Fujitsu is also following another direction as Seagate decided to release its own SSD beginning of next year but at the same time is trying to slow-down SSD adoption by suing other SSD manufacturers for technology/patent infringement.