Seagate bets on hybrid drives

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/26/2010 09:48 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Seagate CEO Steven Luczo claims hybrid hard disks are the future:

Seagate, one of the world's largest maker of hard disk drives, said that solid-state drives (SSDs) will be survived by hybrid drives that feature both flash memory and traditional magnetic media. Moreover, according to Seagate, only a fraction of expensive computers feature SSDs.

"I would say though that from what we know of the offering for example Apple, the percentage of their units that they sell with SSDs versus HDDs is a tiny fraction. I think it

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