Thursday, November 6th 2008
Seagate Invests $100 Million in a New SSD Line-up
Hard drive king Seagate officially confirmed today that it is investing as much as $100 million in a very own line-up of Solid State Drives. Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins said:
Seagate's senior vice president of global marketing Pat King also revealed that the company is working on a network attached storage solution for the home. Unfortunately, that's all the information we have. Hopefully this new line-up will be a big step in the SSD industry.
Source:
Pocket-link.co.uk
We'd love to have an SSD range, that's why we're investing (as much as $100m), as there are a lot of things that we like about them. But there are also some problems.The new line-up Seagate is building will try to overcome some of the problems current SSDs have. At present we're aware of SLC (single layer chip) and MLC (multiple layer chip) SSDs, and we know that the latter is cheaper but has reliability issues. Seagate will try to create a new technology that combines both single-layer cell (SLC) and multi-layer cell (MLC) tech, making better, faster and cheaper SSDs, the drives we all want.
Seagate's senior vice president of global marketing Pat King also revealed that the company is working on a network attached storage solution for the home. Unfortunately, that's all the information we have. Hopefully this new line-up will be a big step in the SSD industry.
6 Comments on Seagate Invests $100 Million in a New SSD Line-up
Just wondering ;)
And yes i remember that news. BTW i am sure seagate has already produced thousands of SSDs... :D..
I love how a tune can quickly change when dollar$ are involved :D
jbunch has spoken.
lol I'm just kidding. Hopefully they invest the money well and turn out some great SSD breakthroughs I mainly want to see affordable, large capacity SSDs soon. :)
on the SSD topic, atm SSD really only has potential in certain computing areas, im not only referring to enterprise, but also for home use, I don't see SSD being 'all round' viable untill they work out a process that makes these things have a longer life span, for uses such as Media playback and other Read-only uses, SSD is already perfect (abeit Price) but for uses such as OS disks and anything that requires alot of writes, its still not a suitable technology :\
sure hope that changes soon. otherwise mechanical hdd's will still be a winner for the home use segmant imo, aslong as you treat them with care, supply the right environmental conditions (right temperature, humidity) you can still write to them near infinatly.
They'll spread to the HTPC crowd, and then the high performance SLC models will start taking over the the enthusiasts who love their raptors.
It'll be 3-5 years before they beat mechanical drives for storage space, as opposed to speed.