The patron saint of financial analysts is Pete Sherriff
SOME MAJOR changes happened overnight at the Fujitsu place. The company said it is shedding some of its business units - namely the HDD bits - which are part of a restructuring plan it'd been talking up lately.
The past few months we've seen Fujitsu trying to offload a bunch of ventures, the most notable of these was, of course, HDD manufacturing. Today, the firm has announced it'll sell off 80 per cent of the HDD manufacturing to Tosh, while the HDD media manufacturing business will be sold to Showa Denko. The HDD media includes the glass and aluminium substrate plants that manufacture the platters for server and notebook HDDs.
The deal ultimately remains within the confines of Japan as Fudge's HDD manufacturing will become an almost-wholly-owned subsidiary of Toshiba by the end of this quarter.
What does Tosh want out of HDD, you ask? Twenty per cent HDD market share by the year 2015 is the answer. Ambitious, considering SSD are on the rise. µ
"What does Tosh want out of HDD, you ask? Twenty per cent HDD market share by the year 2015 is the answer. Ambitious, considering SSD are on the rise."
I've heard that hard drive space doubles about every year and SSDs about every 9 months, so price should(maybe) follow along. So, assuming the world operated in a totally logical fashion, SSD space will cost 5 times as much as hard drive space, whereas now it's 20 times.
So hard drives still look good, until you realize that you'll be paying a few hundred dollars for a multi-terabyte drive when it comes to flash drives. And you're also needing to access that information on that hard drive, which will kind of suck.
So, unless something majorly horrible happens in the SSD industry, flash drives will become VERY popular in the next half-decade or so.
(I know this is obvious stuff, but I figured someone should be first to spell it out)