Seagate goes SSD (finally)

[CoffeeShark]

Maybe it's a smart move for Seagate to wait until prices came down on SSD (solid state storage, you know, flash-type memory) drives. Maybe it wasn't.

But they're going there now.

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The company's first SSD product will be targeted at enterprises that need speedy storage and can afford to pay a premium for the expensive drives. Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers as the high prices could deter them for the next few years, Watkins said in an interview.

I think it was probably a smart idea. No one is owning the SSD space yet, and when consumers start getting 60gb+ SSDs at reasonable prices, they're going to look for the names they've used for hard drives in the past.

PC World

[VincentVega]

I keep saying this, I love this stuff. The thing I care about most professionally is DB design and performance. SSDs absolutely put traditional file servers to bed with the number of transactions/sec they can do. I mean it's ORDERS higher, and the technology is still GREEN (young). I can't wait until it's mainstream. more power to them

[MajorMalfunction]

Better late than never. Hard drive companies have to adapt eventually if they want to survive; the sooner the better.

[DominiKing]

I like that they're waiting to release to the public. It's kind of pointless to start throwing them out at ridiculous prices.

[Craig]

ssd is the future. They had better get on it