Both the largest market players actively invested with the development and production of storage based on solid-state memory. The same Western Digital Corporation recently purchased SanDisk, and is now rapidly integrate this range of SSD products in the range of own products.
Seagate's is aware that in some market segments this type of storage almost entirely supplant the classic hard drives. For example, in an interview with the resource DigiTimes vice president of global sales Seagate said that over the next five years SSD will be installed in 90% of the issued laptops. However, investment in the development of high-capacity hard drives Seagate is not going to give up. Another thing is that the percentage of revenue from product sales in the PC segment in this manufacturer's drives will be gradually reduced from the current 60% to 50% over the next three years. The company has shipped more than 20 million. SSDs.