In circumstances where the sales of desktop computers and laptops continue to fall under the onslaught of tablets and smartphones, manufacturers of classic hard drives on the magnetic platters manage to increase sales of their own products. Mobile devices increasingly rely on cloud storage, which are also needed for hard disks, so manufacturers latest changes only the structure of consumers, but the demand is not reduced.
Seagate company, this year the expects to see the expansion of the range of tablets using its hard drives. It already offers storage on magnetic plates 500 GB, which, thanks to body height not exceeding 5 mm can be placed inside the tablets. According to Seagate, 40% of tablet owners purchase an external hard drive, although the proportion of those notebook buyers is close to 10%.
Of course, the initiative to equip tablets Seagate hard drives have a number of serious obstacles. First, the hard drives are vulnerable to vibration and high temperatures. Second, they are quite expensive for drives used in the rapidly falling costs of tablet. Finally, the hard drive takes much more space and consumes more electricity than a solid state drive.