An Interview with Seagate's Henry Fabian
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:28 am
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Huh ? Which questions are those?xan_user wrote:Most of the questions are all about silence! Or are they now making loud ssd's?:roll:
Henry Fabian:xan_user wrote:Why ask about the soon to be obsolete technology of rotating data storage?
Nope. Questions about SSDs are about storage, since silence then becomes moot. Questions about silence or acoustics are about HDDs. The questions in the article were about Seagate's entry into the SSD world, and about HDDs in general, and market share, etc. The questions about HDDs did not touch upon silence, which some of us found surprising.xan_user wrote:any questions about SSD are about silent storage.
Funny, Western Digital keeps researching and putting out quieter drives: http://www.silentpcreview.com/wd-green-1.5tbxan_user wrote:companies are not going to spend money on new ways to silence spinning drives anymore. for what customers are willing to pay, and how nearly silent a decent drive is now, there's no room in the profit margin to R&D/build/market a quieter spinning drive. It would cost too much, and folks would just choose ssd plus remote (thus quiet) multi TB storage.
xan_user wrote:Most of the questions are all about silence! Or are they now making loud ssd's?:roll:
Why ask about the soon to be obsolete technology of rotating data storage?
Nice read, Mike.
Exactly. As with serial, parallel, IDE, 32-bit, 16-bit, electricity, petroleum, plastic, paper, cardboard, real humans, real food... HDDs are cheap, no nonsense and familiar and whether you like it or not, still the "standard". Those who call them "clunkers" are ignorant, dismissive fools; ye riders of high horses.whispercat wrote:HDDs aren't going away anytime soon.