During the “Back to Mac” event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the new MacBook Airs represent the “future of the notebook,” which many took to mean he was referring to the solid state drive (SSD) inside each one. But as far as Seagate is concerned, SSDs won’t be killing off traditional hard drives in the notebook sector anytime soon.
“Obviously Steve [Jobs] sits in a position that only Steve sits in, in terms of the offering that they provide to their customers and its obviously pretty competing,” Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said during a recent Q&A session. “I would say though that from what we know of the offering for example Apple, the percentage of their units that they sell with SSDs versus HDDs is a tiny fraction. I think it’s under 3 percent, certainly under 5 percent. Obviously this isn’t the first product that they’ve had. I have an Air book with an SSD unit that I’ve had for I guess a year and half now. And I think, there are certain things that are certainly very nice about it. And other things that are little bit frustrating and a little bit frustrating parts are the cost and the lack of capacity.”
Luczo said he spends “a lot of time cleaning out files” in order to “make room for not a lot content.” Luczo also lamented the fact that his “SSD drive takes about 25, 30 seconds to boot now versus the 12 seconds” it took when he first bought it, an issue he admits has more to do with the OS than the technology. Regardless, Seagate’s hybrid HDD/SSD devices don’t suffer from this same problem, he points out.
“You get basically the features and function of SSD at more like disc drive cost and capacity [with our hybrid drive]… So I think that’s where mainstream notebook computing is going,” Luczo said.
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