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Hard drives versus solid state disks, it’s on
Business magazine Fortune recently talked to Seagate CEO, Bill Watkins, about his feeling toward the new trend of ultra-portable laptops carrying solid state disks. Apparently, Watkins feels there is no real threat for the traditional hard drive because he believes people will realize there is no valid justification for paying much more for so much less storage space. He was quoted saying: “Realistically, I just don’t see the flash notebook sell… We just don’t see the proposition.”
But that’s not all, Watkins also mentioned that if SSDs someday become popular enough to threat the hard disk drive business, he is ready to play the lawsuit card. Watkins believes that SSD makers and boosters like Intel and Samsung violate patents they hold regarding the way storage devices communicate with computers. Despite what others may think, there are a lot of companies with great faith in this technology who we are sure are not ready to back down.
But that’s not all, Watkins also mentioned that if SSDs someday become popular enough to threat the hard disk drive business, he is ready to play the lawsuit card. Watkins believes that SSD makers and boosters like Intel and Samsung violate patents they hold regarding the way storage devices communicate with computers. Despite what others may think, there are a lot of companies with great faith in this technology who we are sure are not ready to back down.
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User Comments (4)
Post a comment| black_adder on March 24, 2008 3:26 PM | "...is ready to play the lawsuit card." Another company willing to resort to killing advances in technology because they might lose a bit of money... Pathetic really. The world cares about money and nothing else.
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| icye on March 24, 2008 3:32 PM | Watkins threatening to play the lawsuit card because its good for the lawyers but bad for consumers at the end.
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| phantasm66 on March 25, 2008 2:50 AM | Watkins believes that SSD makers and boosters like Intel and Samsung violate patents they hold regarding the way storage devices communicate with computers God!!! Patents, patents, bloody patents!I wonder what kinds of wonderful machines we would have if these companies stopped suing each other left, right and centre.
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| windmill007 on March 25, 2008 9:01 AM | Solid State is the future. Either get on board or get ready to fail. Moving parts are so old school and as soon as the technolgy is fail safe and faster then regular hard drives we will soon seem them replacing the old school drives.
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