NEWZ: Hitachi Leaves The 2½ Inch SAS Marketplace

[Onomatopoeic]

• Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), the hard disk drive manufacturer, has thrown in the towel on its first generation of enterprise small form factor (SFF) disk drives, turning instead to hot growth areas such as consumer and enterprise ATA disk drives...

I wonder if that towel was still wet.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com...sid5_gci1069167,00.html?track=NL-52&ad=506952

 

[Buck]

Like Splash.

 

[mubs]

Certainly doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in them, eh?

On related issues, where are the plans to make 2.5" SATA drives? If SAS controllers can use a mix-n-match hodge-podge of SAS and SATA, logic dictates that 2.5" SATA drives should be in the wings as well.

Thoughts?

 

[Buck]

Certainly doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in them, eh?

On related issues, where are the plans to make 2.5" SATA drives? If SAS controllers can use a mix-n-match hodge-podge of SAS and SATA, logic dictates that 2.5" SATA drives should be in the wings as well.

Thoughts?

I'll go out on a limb and guess that Hitachi will be including that exact market.

 

[Onomatopoeic]

...On related issues, where are the plans to make 2.5" SATA drives? If SAS controllers can use a mix-n-match hodge-podge of SAS and SATA, logic dictates that 2.5" SATA drives should be in the wings as well.

There already are some 2½ incher SATA drives. Fujitsu and Hitachi make 'em.