Seagate has confirmed that it will no longer manufacture 2.5" 7200 RPM drives by the end of this year. Seagate cites the falling prices of SSD drives as the major contributing factor in cutting its line of 7200 PRM drives from production. The announced cuts will not affect Seagate’s performance hard drive market.
In another five years, short of a new explosion in storage intensive files, we will likely reach the point where everything becomes pure SSD because the cost and performance will be better than any conventional or hybrid solutions.
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