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Where are Seagate and WD SSDs in the market? Why are they sitting on the sidelines while Intel, Samsung, and smaller players eat up market share?
by velodrome 14y ago
Where are Seagate and WD SSDs in the market? Why are they sitting on the sidelines while Intel, Samsung, and smaller players eat up market share?
- wmf 14y agoClassic innovator's dilemma. (They actually have SSDs, but they're not competitive in the consumer market. See http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybrid/ http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybr... and http://wd.com/en/products/solidstate/embedded/ http://wd.com/en/products/solidstate/embedded/ )
- kdsudac 14y agoSeagate and Western Digital are way too busy making money hand over fist selling hard drives :) A lot of the SSD companies aren't really making that much money. The fabs to make the memory chips are huge capital investments and suppliers have historically been bad at managing supply and demand leading to volatile pricing. Hence the current drop in prices cited in the original article.