Thursday, August 23, 2007

Seagate to Offer Solid-State Drives

Seagate Technology LLC reportedly plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products.


"We have solid-state drives on every road map that we have," Bill Watkins, the company's CEO, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.


SSDs, as solid-state drives are also known, use flash memory instead of magnetic disks to store information. Flash is a type of non-volatile memory, which means the chips retain stored information when power is off. Other memory types, such as DRAM, lose data when the power goes off.



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