Seagate Gets into the SSD Game
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If you don’t move with the market, the market will move without you. So seems the lesson learned by Seagate which just announced it would begin producing solid state drives (SSD), in conjunction with its traditional line of mechanical hard drives.
Seagate’s new line is called Pulsar. According to Seagate, Pulsar is intended for blade and general server applications--which means they will be targeted to the enterprise market segment.
The drives will be built with chips of Seagate’s own design, making use of single-level cell (SLC) technology (for reliability), fit into a 2.5-inch form factor, use a SATA 3Gb/s interface, and will be available in capacities up to 200GB.
Pulsar is available now to OEM customers for “qualification.” In other words, we aren’t invited to this particular party.
Image Credit: Seagate
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blindhorizon
December 09, 2009 at 11:27am
I'm the perfect candidate for this drive, i have a server farm where i work and i have been hunting around all morning calling my part suppliers and no one can get any info or price on it. wonder when its really going to be truly available.
Caboose
December 08, 2009 at 3:16pm
It's aboot damn time they join the party. I wonder how long before consumer drives become avail.
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