Seagate Announces First SSD, 2TB HDD

Lucas123 writes "Seagate CEO Bill Watkins said today that the company plans to put out its first solid state disk drive next year as well as a 2TB version of its Barracuda hard disk drive. Watkins also alluded to Seagate's inevitable move from spinning disk to solid state drives, but emphasized it will be years away, saying the storage market is driven by cost-per-gigabyte and though SSDs provide benefits such as power savings, they won't be in laptops in the next few years. A 128GB SSD costs $460, or $3.58 per gigabyte, compared to $60 for a 160GB hard drive, according to Krishna Chander, an analyst at iSuppli. 'It will take three to four years for SSDs to come to parity with hard drives,' on price and reliability."

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Re:Every news source

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Seagate wants you to buy both of them. You can use the SSD for the 2TB HDD's cache.

Re:Me Too!

[Anonymous Coward]

So you're saying what? You think they lack artistic integrity? Are you some kind of indy storage manufacture that focused on SSDs before it was the cool thing to do?

Re:Every news source

[mrbluze]

I think Seagate wants you to buy both of them.

Oh shit, you mean this could be.. no.. impossible.. a.. SLASHVERTISEMENT?

Re:Every news source

[NMerriam]

Seagate is announcing two seperate products. One is a SSD and the OTHER is a 2TB hdd.

Wow, I saw the headline in my RSS feed and misread it the same way everyone else did. I expected the next story to be about the new finance company Seagate was opening to provide mortgages on 2TB SSDs.

Re:Eee PC not a laptop ?

[mrbluze]

I've never seen it referred to as a laptop.

It's only a laptop if it's heavy enough not to fall off your lap while you're watching porn.

Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again..

[Gat0r30y]

Ray Tracing software? 3-D Modeling? The latest games? I can't even afford to think what a system like that would cost nowadays.

Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again..

[Miseph]

It *nghflgthurnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh* seizes me too!

Oblig Simpsons

[nxtr]

Hutz: All right gentleman. I will take your case. But I will require a thousand dollar retainer.
Bart: A thousand dollars. But your ad says "no money down".
Hutz: Oh, they got this all screwed up. [corrects ad with felt-marker]
Bart: So you don't work on a contingency basis?
Hutz: No, money down. Oops, I shouldn't have the Bar Association logo here either.

Re:Every news source

[jacquesm]

**whoosh**

Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again..

[jacquesm]

that's the best you can do ? Tape... hah, if only we had tape.

All we had was chisels and hammers, and stone tablets, lots of stone tablets.

Sequential writes were bad enough, but random ones, my back still hurts remembering.

When punch cards came it was a great relief!

tape... young whippersnappers...