While most major disk-drive manufacturers have developed or are already selling solid-state disk drives or hybrid drives, which use a combination of flash memory and spinning disk, Fujitsu Ltd. has chosen not to develop a product for market. Joel Hagberg, Fujitsu's vice president of business development, said his company does not plan to launch any solid-state disk-drive products over the next two years because the value proposition of the technology is not compelling enough and won't be until technology breakthroughs change solid-state disk's performance and reliability.
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"the solid state disk market is a market that requires a whole new set of resources and expertise. it is also one that directly competes with our own existing hard disk market so we will declare that these products are slow and unrelaible for as long we are not offering them"
I have opened many a fortune cookie and have yet to find words as wise as your post just now.
A big "+1" from me!
on the other hand, its not really helping move us toward SSD any faster
i want to have dual 1TB SSD in raid 0 in the next 2-3 years
The $200 one seems like a deal but when you look and realize it has 50mpbs read and 20mbps write, and the $550 drive has 120mbps read and 80mbps write you soon realize that the cheap drive isn't worth it and a hard drive will perform better.
The good SSD's are still to expensive for the consumer market, buying a "cheap" SSD is pointless because a standard hard drive beats them.
If they wanna get left behind, I say let them. Fujitsu isn't what I'd call a major player anyways, so who cares what they think?
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