Despite the fact that the global market trend for the mass transition to solid state drives, Seagate said it expects growth in popularity of mobile hard disk drive with 7200rpm rotational speed and believes that such discs within the next two years will take the lion's share of the market notebooks. In the network appeared charts, entitled "Seagate Market Research", provided by Seagate and supporting her views.

According to these figures, this year on mobile hard drives with speed 5400ob/min more than 80% of the market, the rest is distributed between solid-state drives and mechanical models with the rotational speed 4200ob/min and 7200rpm. Seagate believes that in the coming years, the proportion of fast motor drives will grow, and next year it will take more than 30% market share, a year later 50%, and by 2012 about 60%. Captivatingly, Seagate also expect that SSD will still be less than one tenth of the market over the next three years. The manufacturer does not foresee significant growth in the proportion of SSD in the mobile market between 2010 and 2012, despite the fact that by the time the flash memory will certainly be faster and denser.

This week, Seagate presented its foremost solid-state drive called as Pulsar plus anticipated for businesses.