Solid state drives (SSD) become the first choice when we talk about notebooks and portable devices. As I was telling you in the last articles about SSD, high tech manufacturers are more interested about this market. The SSD is more reliable and provides high capacities in tiny cases. Seagate, the major storage manufacturer announced its intentions to produce solid state drives.
The company aims to release an enterprise product because the SSD is not price-competitive yet, and though the home user might not afford it. At this moment a 128GB SSD costs $460, or $3.58 per gigabyte while a 160GB hard drive retails for $60. Seagate CEO, Bill Watkins, belives that SSD market won't be in the mainstream until the price per gigabyte drops. Thus the company won't make the consumer its target until the price comes down to 10 cents, he said.
Seagate has announced the 2TB hard drive to be released next year. Obviously the company focuses on consumers needs to carry large amount of data. SSD may be faster, but it can't offer larger capacities comparable with the hard drives.
via InfoWorld
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