Three years ago, Western Digital has bought SSD products for embedded applications - SiliconSystems company, but Seagate has started cooperation with LSI and Samsung companies.
Fortunately, there were signals that Seagate and WD are beginning to play a major market for SSD. Seagate company , for example, has strengthened the appropriate division of the company by Micron and has made several acquisitions, which are not going to stop. WD, at least bought Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, which has been in active enterprise-class solid state drives based on Intel controller and memory .
In twentieth of August , HGST representatives will speak about the benefits of SSDs in data centers and corporate sector.
Returning to summit, Hitachi GST will talk about the reliability of flash memory as well as talk about the new interface for SSD. In the latter case, we will deal with SAS 12 Gb / s. Recall in the prototype SSD developers implemented two-port SAS 12 Gb / s, achieving a total capacity of 4.8 GB / s.