As one of the two largest producers of hard disks, magnetic plates, Seagate rightly believes that the cost advantages of these data carriers will allow them to compete successfully with SSDs. At the same time, Seagate show interest in the segment of solid state memory - the company has mastered the production of hybrid hard drives. Currently Seagate has released more than 20 million. Hybrid hard drives.
Speaking in early December at a conference for investors NASDAQ, Seagate CFO David Morton said that hard disks, magnetic plates will still be present on the market for at least 15-20 years. The structure of demand for them will vary. For example, by 2020 the proportion of the hard disks used in the "cloud" storage, should reach 60%. Now this figure does not exceed 10-15%, so this segment of the market retains good potential growth.
Virtual Reality, the Internet of things, security systems, robotics and cars with autopilot - these are the current trends . Smartphones also has not exhausted potential in this sense.
Speaking about the possibility of the PC market to grow next year, Seagate CFO expressed a timid hope for the emergence of positive dynamics.