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The largest hard drive (HDD) manufacturer Seagate "slowly preparing for the transition to a semi-stable state disk (SSD) production. The company in this market segment disgorge 2009. Its representatives predicts that over time, promising technologies completely replace its current "bread and butter" - hard disks.

The largest hard drive (HDD) manufacturer Seagate "slowly preparing for the transition to a semi-stable state disk (SSD) production. The company in this market segment disgorge 2009. Its representatives predicts that over time, promising technologies completely replace its current "bread and butter" - hard disks.

"All of our history associated with the rotating data storage media. But gradually the entry into force of semiconducting [Eng. Solid State] alternatives, we also take this innovation," said the company's senior marketing manager Rich'as Vignes'as.

The first target "Seagate products market will be large companies. Widespread use of the SSD market will begin production later. The producer said, the crucial challenge is to convince large customers that it SSD is safe. While traditional hard drives themselves are not without problems, kleintus will convince that the new media is not inferior to the old ones. "So far it is not clear how exactly to describe the expected length of life SSD drive or reliability. For this reason, we are now the basis for this process to standardize," says Vignes'as.

It is expected that the market fears will reduce the large "players", such as Seagate, participation. Analysts believe that the parameters of the rapidly reach SSD hard drives. "SSD provides a much better MTBF [mean time between failures, than the HDD, although the credibility issue still needs to be addressed," said the company "Forward Insights' working industry analyst Gregory Wong'as.

"Seagate representatives are convinced that the new products they successfully apply its experience of decades of expertise in the field of error correction. SSD substantial advantage is speed, and that is what makes the company go into this market segment. "SSD random IPOS [the input number of operations per second] is 100 times better than the HDD," said Wong'as, emphasizing the dramatic speed advantage over SSD HDD processing the input and output operations. Some of the largest U.S. and other countries around the world companies such as Citibank or American Express in its servers performance measures in accordance with the IOPS.

Of course, this shift will not be easy - there are already full of competitors. Intel already sells both companies and individual users for SSD. Samsung is the leader in consumer market - the disks used in the Dell and Apple computers, and the company is already facing in the large corporate customers. -Last Thursday, Samsung announced that the company Hewlett-Packard after their IC tests carried out to use their "ProLiant blade server systems.

"For some companies this is a new market and new product development, while for us it is already there and market the new product," says Vignes'as. "Seagate stock - NAND-type 'flash' memory - bought from other producers, and currently is negotiating with major suppliers of NAND memory.