What happened to Seagate SSD's ?

[Doomer]

A while back they were the talk of the town, everybody was raving about how good they were. I bought a 480gb version and it's been flawless. Now, Newegg doesn't carry them, neither does hardly anyone else. Did they pull out of the SSD market?

 

[Burpo]

SEAGATE 600 PRO SSD - 480GB ST480FP0021 is made by Fujitsu and is more Enterprise class. I think they cut a deal with Toshiba tho, so who knows what happened..

 

[Essence_of_War]

Good question, for a while it looked like newegg and others were really pricing them to move, especially given their performance level. That led me to believe that they were clearing out stock for a new iteration, but we haven't seen anything in the consumer space yet.

So long story short, I don't know, but I'd be interested to hear if anybody else did! 😛

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Well, they bought LSI and Avago, so they have some IP they could leverage.

Based on this:

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/about/investors/en-us/docs/2014-strategic-update-presentation.pdf

(And keeping in mind that I didn't hear the accompanying people talking)

I'd have to assume that they intend to make most of their money in Enterprise/Cloud, where the margins are higher. The major players in the consumer SSD space (Toshiba, Crucial, Samsung, and sometimes Intel), plus the hordes of sandforce clones, keep margins low enough that it's not a particularly attractive market for a new player to enter.

 

[lyssword]

Hmm tigerdirect had 240gb, I got it for 100, beats mx100 in most tests I really like it. Don't know why they don't make more

 

[VirtualLarry]

Their controller supplier, LAMD (Link-A-Media Devices) was bought out by a competitor.

 

[Auric]

Hynix aquired LAMD more than two years ago and Seagate agreed to aquire the flash division of LSI (SandForce) after the latter was aquired by Avago, earlier this year. So not sure if a valid reason for their absence. There were rumours of potentially aquiring OCZ (before it failed and was scavenged by Toshiba), which implies interest and could explain some delay. I have not really followed it but since SanDisk uses their own controllers for enterprise and SandForce for consumer does that not imply the aquisition is more targetting the consumer market (they also aquired another division that is clearly enterprise focussed), if not just a blocking action?