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Engages in the design, manufacturing and marketing of rigid disc drives. Produces a range of rigid disc drive products, which are used in enterprise servers, mainframes and workstations.
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willsmithorg (86.93) Submitted: 1/30/08 3:19 PM : Start Price: $20.56 STX Score: 22.17
According to logarithmic graphs I've been keeping since 2002, flash becomes cheaper than hard disks in 2013 or 2014 (vs 3.5" hard disks), about 1 year before that for laptop disks and other earlier-crossover areas (portability, reliability, low-access-time).Hard disk is dead.
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Lightstrider (96.46) Submitted: 2/05/08 10:54 AM
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Have you determined when compact disks will be dead?
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yengster (52.69) Submitted: 4/16/08 10:40 AM
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perhaps your analysis is true for consumer products, but not for enterprise, where bigger, faster, and cheaper/gigabyte is the decision maker. It'll be a long time before banks will store petabytes of data on FLASH
Smagma (34.68) Submitted: 7/16/08 1:53 PM
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Seagate will be entering other storage mediums in the future..
Stagewalker (< 20) Submitted: 9/29/08 8:18 PM
williamsmith Et AlDell and a couple of lesser known laptop manufacturers currently sell what I like to call "road warrior" laptops with solid state memory. As we see installed solid state memory approach the ten gig range, I think we will see a dramatic decline in the need for smaller hard drives.By contrast, the need for memory at the server level is currently insatiable. The question is whether Seagate will be willing to let the lower end of its market fade away as it pursues the drives that go in the heavy iron.
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