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Technology Stocks : Seagate Technology

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From: Sam	3/4/2013 7:45:14 AM
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Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year Last paragraph: Seagate doesn't have a consumer SSD lineup, so the Momentus XT is a crucial product for Seagate in order to stay in the high-end, higher-profit consumer storage market. The question is whether they will be able to make a hybrid drive a more attractive option than a caching mSATA/M.2 SSD with a conventional hard drive. Given the current pricing and the upgrade path offered by mSATA/M.2, plus the fact that 20-32GB caching SSDs with Intel's Smart Response Technology clearly outperform the current Momentus XT offerings, Seagate has their work cut out for them. In another five years, short of a new explosion in storage intensive files, we will likely reach the point where everything becomes pure SSD because the cost and performance will be better than any conventional or hybrid solutions. anandtech.com It doesn't seem likely to me that everything will become "pure SSD" because the amount of capital necessary to invest in NAND production is simply too large to produce that much storage capacity.

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