2.5-inch discs at low cost from Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital

"The three major hard disk manufacturers are working on the implementation of storage solutions at low cost that next year will find place in economic systems"

The website DigiTimes reports that the leading manufacturers of hard disk, Seagate, Western Digital and HGST, are working to develop storage units of 2.5-inches and therefore intended primarily for use in mobile devices with low-cost, replying so the demands of assemblers.

According to information available solutions currently under development will be marketed not before the second half of next year, at a price that is less indicative of 40% -50% compared to average selling price of the solutions from 2.5 inches of band entry-level.

The news seems to be a further confirmation of the trend dashed by DRAMeXchange in 2009, which we had the opportunity to speak last week in this story, that the mobile NETBOOK and low-cost solutions to gradually abandon solid-state storage for return to traditional devices of magneto-mechanical.

In anticipation, to a significant expansion of the market for low-cost systems, which already covered in this article, producers of systems would have asked the suppliers of hard disk to reduce as much as possible the cost of components, so that can enlarge, albeit slightly, the narrow margin of profit from the marketing of low-cost solutions. The three producers mentioned at the beginning are now working to find ways to reduce costs applicable to all components that make up a hard disk, and then heads, plates, rotors and so on.

DigiTimes also reports that the standard cutting out these discs will be offered on the market will be 80GB, with a chance to stand up to 120GB when cutting costs is sustainable and effective. The direct consequence of the spread of storage units to mechanical low cost will decrease demand for SSD solutions, currently driven by reality as Samsung Electronics, Toshiba and Intel.

I would be curious to understand what is due this "savings".

... savings?

For fear of recession ..... fear that the HD remain on the stomach!

PS. But then Seagate has lowered the guarantee by 5 to 2 years ....

Instead of going forward will be back as the shrimp and ever worse with hard disk at low cost and perhaps more frequent breaks a marked, more SSD that does not ever lower price.