Seagate dives into solid state drive market

by David Lawsky Dec. 10, 2009

Seagate Technology, the world's No. 1 producer of disc drives, unveiled its first solid state drive on Monday, getting into a nascent but potentially lucrative market a step behind rivals such as Stec Inc. Seagate's offering -- called the Pulsar -- is for use in data centers, where thousands of servers act in concert to power systems for companies and agencies from Google Inc and Amazon.Com Inc to the Pentagon. Seagate, whose new solid state drive (SSD) has up to 200 gigabytes of capacity, is entering a market where others already have a toehold. "Seagate is late to the game, but it's not like the game is over," said Joseph Unsworth, an analyst with Gartner who was pre-briefed on the product release. Many industry experts view solid-state drives as the future of the industry. They are faster and, unlike traditional hard drives, have no moving parts and are thus more rugged. Analysts say their prices should come down as the technology improves.

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