Seagate Going to China?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 27. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
The stock market was alive with rumors that Seagate might be bought by an unnamed Chinese company, as reported in the New York Times, among others. This comes after a week of insider whispers about a possible tieup between Seagate and memory-makers, Micron or SanDisk, itself a Seagate spin-off. It seems that the [...]
Commercial SSDs Are Here?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 14. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Anyone paying attention knows I’m not particular sanguine about the near-term prospects for solid-state disks (SSDs) and hybrid hard disk drives (H-HDDs) in the enterprise storage space, but I’m not foolish enough to discount them entirely. With that in mind, it’s worthwhile noting the debut of the first commercially-available retail(ish) SATA SSD from [...]
