With the engineering and manufacturing expertise of drive manufacturing becoming a non-issue for SSD production, what place does a company like seagate have in the industry? Essentially anyone can now produce competitive storage systems, all it requires is the capitalization to purchase large quantities of memory (of whatever technology), will power, and high volume manufacturing expertise.
Any large asian company can do this at a price point that Seagate cannot compete with.
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With the engineering and manufacturing expertise of drive manufacturing becoming a non-issue for SSD production, what place does a company like seagate have in the industry? Essentially anyone can now produce competitive storage systems, all it requires is the capitalization to purchase large quantities of memory (of whatever technology), will power, and high volume manufacturing expertise.
Any large asian company can do this at a price point that Seagate cannot compete with.