Although the past two years solid-state drive products show a tendency blossom everywhere, large and small storage vendors continue to introduce new products with their own characteristics, but overall solid-state hard drive is still high above the short term is still not universal and even occupy the mainstream market. Seagate Chief Financial Officer Patrick O'Malley said in the quarterly financial conference: "We do not estimate (solid-state hard drive business) expected revenues, but this is still a very small market. No doubt."

As the number one hard drive maker, Seagate until late last year released its first solid-state hard drives "Pulsar", and only for the enterprise market, and plans to increase the SAS version of the interface later this year, but now are for mainstream desktops Interface SATA 3Gbps.

Seagate chief executive officer and chairman Stephen Luczo said: "We shipped (solid state drive) Early samples were highly appreciated. Given our reliability, performance, cost and capacity to make compromises, I have to say very surprised . Of course, you know, durable solid-state hard disk facing challenges. We have been working hard to ensure that meet the needs of enterprise-class reliability. SAS models will be available later this year. "

Seagate did not disclose when he moved to consumer-class solid-state drive market, saying only that customer demand will continue to develop the appropriate product.

Ended January 1, 2010 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, Seagate shipped 49.9 million drives, but did not say how many of these solid-state hard drive. Western Digital hard drive shipments in the same period is 35.5 million.

Pulsar Seagate's first solid-state drives

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