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Seagate to develop hybrid line of solid-state drives?
Memory device maker Seagate is investing as much as $100 million into developing a new type of solid-state drives (SSDs), according to a Wednesday report . According to company CEO Bill Watkins, Seagate is trying to resolve certain issues with the current technology, including SSDs' ...
NEWS: Seagate CEO hints at SSD tech to come
NEWS: Seagate CEO hints at SSD tech to come
pocket-lint.co.uk — 5 November 2008 2:33 GMT / By Katie Scott Seagate's CEO has confirmed that the company is... working on its very own line-up of Solid State Drives in a briefing with Pocket-lint. Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate, gave a rare hint at what kind of SSD ... (more) NEWS: Seagate CEO hints at SSD tech to come
Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives
tgdaily.com — Seagate is more aggressively pushing its full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives and said that McAfee is... now providing enterprise management level tools. Dell is the first manufacturer to ship these new drives in a 320 GB (500 GB available soon) flavor ... (more) Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives
Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs
Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs
tomshardware.com — Last week Tom’s Hardware had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives.... We would like to update readers with the response that Tom’s Hardware has gotten directly from Seagate. “Seagate is investigating an issue ... (more) Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs
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  • JustJosh JustJosh
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    I wonder if this will mean lower costs for the consumer or just for the manufacturer?
    Posted 11/8/2008 respond (flag)
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Seagate developing mutant hybrid SSD tech to bring costs down
Engadget — ... more to produce than the conventional variety. Recently, CEO Bill Watkins hinted that the company intends to overcome that problem by combining relatively inexpensive (but unreliable) multi-layer cells with pricier (but dependable) single-layer cells in some kind of hybrid drive technology. It's all very pie in the sky right now, but surely it's a better hope than sticking to your old fashioned ways and seeking out opportunities to sue envelope-pushing competitors. [Via Electronista] Seagate developing mutant hybrid SSD tech to bring costs down originally ...

Seagate working on hybrid SSDs
DV Hardware — ... Seagate is investing up to $100 million into a new type of "hybrid" solid state disk that combines the advantages of SLC and MLC flash memory technology: ...

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