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Seagate to jump into the SSD game, 2TB spinners planned for next year

Posted by Nilay Patel in BLOGROLL, MEDIA

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SSDs are the new heat, and while all sorts of upstarts have been cranking them out old-school drive manufacturer Seagate has mostly sat it out and made a lot of noise about patent lawsuits. The lawsuits aren’t going away (obviously), but CEO Bill Watkins told PC World yesterday that the company is finally getting ready to release its first SSD sometime next year, as well as launch a line of 2TB traditional hard drives. Watkins said that SSDs weren’t yet price-competitive for consumers (uh, yeah), and that Seagate won’t focus on consumer SSDs until the price falls to the 10-cents-per-GB level. Until then, the target market is data centers looking to process data quickly or save on energy consumption costs — the rest of us will just have to save our pennies, apparently.

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