“In fact, the disparity between the cost on a dollar per gigabyte is upper to 20 to 1 [right now],” said Dave Morton, senior vice president of finance at Seagate, at Citigroup’s global technology conference. “I personally will never foresee the day, […] when there is a crossover [between the per-gigabyte cost of NAND and rotating magnetic media]. In 2020 we [will] have drives in the portfolio that will be less than half a penny per-gigabyte. I just don’t see how you could get that from the competing technology.”Source: KitGuru
Seagate convinced SSD cost will not reach per-gigabyte cost of HDDs
Posted on Monday, September 14 2015 @ 13:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck