Hard disk drive, solid state drives or hybrid drives? Seagate has clear ideas: the market will prefer the latter because they are able to combine the performance benefits of SSD solutions with capacities of conventional magneto-mechanical properties. "I want to emphasize that the information we supply Apple, SSD drives are sold with only a small fraction compared to those with hard drives. I think they are below the 3%, certainly are less than 5%.

With ' introduction of hybrid drives for Seagate in the last quarter, you can have the features and functions of an SSD at a price and a capacity more akin to traditional HDD solutions, "he said Luzco Steven, CEO of Seagate, at a conference call with financial analysts. Currently, the solutions have a cost per gigabyte SSD can not be compared with that of traditional hard drives, although that offer greater reliability and higher performance.

Last quarter, Seagate has started to offer hybrid drives, with the model Momentus XT : it is a storage device that combines a flash memory, along with traditional magnetic platters. The portion of flash memory data will be used for more frequent access, but you can count on the storage capacity of a traditional hard-drive solution. Seagate SSD also considered the most beneficial solutions for enterprise-type applications, rather than for personal computers. However, considering the current cost per gigabyte, customers are still oriented to choose traditional hard drives, even at high speed of rotation of the plates, rather than SSDs.