Cupertino - Seagate to Stop Manufacturing 7200-rpm Laptop HDDs
Seagate Technology the world’s second largest hard drive manufacturer has announced that it will stop making 2.5-inch, 7200-rpm laptop hard drives by the end of 2013.
Seagate Director of Marketing and Product Management David Burks said that “We are going to stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013.” Another Seagate spokesperson told PCWorld that, “High performance in the notebook segment in the future will come from solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) rather than drives with higher spin speeds.”
Currently Seagate has not started the production of SSDs but they have signed an agreement with DensBits in 2012 co-develop both consumer- and enterprise-focused solid state drives.
SSD drives are far more superior to the conventional hard drives in terms of speed and performance however there are some limitations. Firstly SSD drives are very expensive as compared to their hard drive counterparts.
Amazon sells 512GB SSD at $300 and you can easily get 1TB hard drive under $300 which makes SSD a difficult buy. Secondly the HDDs are more reliable than SSDs because the hard disk drives have moving parts and if you ever end up breaking your laptop, you can know when a hard drive starts to go but there is no such case when it comes to SSD.
SSD will surely get more consumers once its price tag gets in reach of an ordinary computer user with limited resources.
