Thursday, 23 August 2007

Seagate To Get Into Flash Memory

Seagate is launching solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products...

Seagate is launching solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products.

Seagate CEO Bill Watkins was quoted by media as saying, "We have solid-state drives on every road map that we have."

However media reports did not say what is Seagate upto with its SSD plans. Also it is not known when Seagate plans to start shipping SSDs or what capacity the upcoming products will over.

The drives are intended to be used in laptops and are available in capacities up to 160GB, according to Seagate's Web site.