Seagate CEO bashes SSD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 01:17 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Solid State Drives are up and coming, so it's not too surprizing that HDD manufactuirers are not exactly charmed by it as .. well let's be honest here, SDD is the future and in the end will replace the traditional Hard drive. Check out these absolutely silly comments from Bill Watkins, CEO of hard drive maker Seagate. He states says he's not impressed by solid state drives. He claims sales won't take off and if they do that Seagate may sue SSD makers as he believes that SSD manufacturers are infringing upon several of Seagate's and Western Digital's patents, can you tell the man is feeling some heat ?:

Seagate, a company firmly entrenched in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) storage, unsurprisingly is not impressed with SSDs. "Realistically, I just don

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