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Seagate Announces First SSD, 2TB HDD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-with-the-program dept.

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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  1. Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again.. by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't help it. I remember buying my first two gig drive for $780, back when the dollar was worth squat. Now of course, the value of the dollar is rapidly approaching diddly-squat.

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    1. Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again.. by Gat0r30y · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again.. by Miseph · · Score: 3, Funny

      It *nghflgthurnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh* seizes me too!

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    3. Re:Oh, no.. Here comes the nostalgia again.. by jacquesm · · Score: 2, Funny

      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...

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  2. Re:Every news source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  3. Re:Me Too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Every news source by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Seagate wants you to buy both of them. Oh shit, you mean this could be.. no.. impossible.. a.. SLASHVERTISEMENT?
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  5. Re:Every news source by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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  6. Re:Eee PC not a laptop ? by mrbluze · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.
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  7. Oblig Simpsons by nxtr · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Every news source by jacquesm · · Score: 3, Funny

    **whoosh**

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