Seagate to Continue Focus on Hybrid HDDs

[Guest]

Seagate forecasts weakening shipments of hard drives and slight price erosion, while the company banks on new hybrid drives slated for release later this year.

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[monkeymonk]

Harddrive prices are back to normal? ...News to me

 

[Pinhedd]

The Momentus XT hard drives are amazing. I'm looking forward to what they come out with next

 

[whimseh]

I have a 500GB Momentus XT, I love it!

 

[memadmax]

.... wah wah wah wah waaaaaaaahhh...

See: "High HDD prices result in record sales at Seagate"......

 

[oneblackened]

My laptop has a 750GB Momentus XT, and it is FAST.

 

[JeTJL]

Seagate seems to be the only company doing this for consumers, seriously would like some other companies to jump on board to drive the prices down for these too.

 

[danwat1234]

That 7mm thick Momentus XT, that will probably be a 500GB hard drive, obviously with 1 platter.
Can't wait for the 1TB version with hopefully a NAND flash cache that can buffer writes.

 

[tomfreak]

mean while I will not be buying HDD until 1Tb hit pre flood levels.

 

[rb420]

The hard drive industry is returning to a state of normal as far as hard drive availability is concerned

Slowly trickling down to retailers...

Local Pre Flood Price: hitachi 2tb 69.99 Now: Seagate 2tb Green 89.99

It isn't quite what it was, but it is getting there. Both drives were OEM.

 

[game junky]

I have tried the 500 GB Seagate hybrid drives but not the more recent 750GB model that doubled the flash partition to 16GB. I have heard encouraging things and I think for a single drive solution that requires large capacity with quick than normal SATA access times, it is a winner. Have a catalog designer in the office using one in her laptop she uses for CS5 and she is happy with the performance versus a standard drive. As they continue to increase the density of flash memory, I think we will see higher capacity drives at decreasing prices, but I think that's 2-3 years down the road for the next really significant change. There are some sub $/GB options out there (including the Samsung 830 if you get lucky on some popular sites) so we are in the right direction to make drive manufacturers compete at those price points. As a consumer with a lot of data, I think it's great.

Keep going Seagate, increase the flash partition to 32GB and lets see how fast we can make these things fly!

 

[tacobravo]

I should get this for my brother