Good news SSD fans: Fujitsu has halted their planned production of
1.8-inch hard disk drives due to increased interest in using
solid state disks in handheld devices. A Fujitsu spokesman said, "We want to see if the market tips toward flash, or if it stays with hard drives." The move effectively leaves the 1.8-inch HDD market to the likes of
Seagate,
Toshiba, and
Samsung. It's interesting to note that Fujitsu already offers SSD drives as options in their
Lifebook Q and B laptops and
P1610 Tablet PC. However, "their" SSDs aren't home cooked, they come by way of Samsung. To the best of our knowledge Fujitsu has no formal plans to enter the burgeoning flash drive industry at all; a market where
Samsung already reigns supreme with
Toshiba (via their
partnership with Sandisk) coming on strong. With SSDs dropping in price
by about 60% annually, we can't say that we blame Fujitsu for bailing.
[Via
iLounge, thanks Erion 1]
posted Apr 11th 2007 9:01AM
Good move. We'll have sub $300, 64 GB drives available everywhere by the end of the year, possibly 128 GB.
let it roll baby, papa needs a new SSD/LED/HD+-RW Mac Book Pro!
cheeesesauna, from your keyboard to God's browser my friend.
Bah, I hate flash storage. Limitations on the number of erase-write cycles bug me, as an engineer.
I remember that with a certain recent generation of Windows Mobile devices, performance dropped dramatically by somebody's stupid decision to use flash RAM. It was better for battery life, because it could power down and resupply the power without flushing RAM contents, but to make it last longer than a few months, they had to decrease performance by lots of jiggery pokery.
Of course, that doesn't mean much when talking about flash storage (other than RAM), but these limitations can come up after a few years of use.
I can't wait till SSD becomes mainstream!
Where do you get that title. They are not betting anything. Fujitsu is doing what they do best, getting out of markets they don't see potential in.
actually fujitsu was already in the flash memory business (Spansion)
看来SSD势不可挡了~~是否以后就会完全是SSD的天下呢？
樓主是問未來除了SSD之外，還有什麼其他的硬碟替代產品吧^^"