Seagate Changes Warranty Policy
In times of recession, companies will cut anything to stay above the line: cost, jobs and even warranty terms.
The company recently announced plans to slash its former warranty terms for bare drive products. Thus, consumer electronics, notebook and personal storage bare drives will soon feature a warranty of 3 years instead of 5, as Seagate offers now.
The new policy applies to all products purchased on or after January 3, 2009. Still, Seagate enterprise drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products will be excepted and will continue to have 5-year warranty periods.
“Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards,” the company stated.
Two questions come to mind:
1. Could Seagate be saying “we’re less sure of our products as of now”? or
2. Is this just a way to push up Christmas sales?
Friday, December 19, 2008
Toshiba Announces The First 512 GB SSD
Toshiba Announces The First 512 GB SSD
The first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte GB SSD was born in the Toshiba clan, the company eagerly announced.
The Japanese company stated that its new SSD model is based on 43 nm Multi-Level Cell NAND and it will be used in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems.
"The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications,” said Mr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."
In addition to the 512GB drive, Toshiba's 43nm NAND SSD family also includes smaller SSD in size of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, available in both 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules.
The second generation SSDs utilizes an advanced MLC controller, thus achieving higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance. According to Toshiba, the read speed of the new drives can reach a maximum sequential read speed of 240MBp) and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps.
In addition, the drives offer AES data encryption to prevent unauthorized data access.
The first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte GB SSD was born in the Toshiba clan, the company eagerly announced.
The Japanese company stated that its new SSD model is based on 43 nm Multi-Level Cell NAND and it will be used in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems.
"The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications,” said Mr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."
In addition to the 512GB drive, Toshiba's 43nm NAND SSD family also includes smaller SSD in size of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, available in both 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules.
The second generation SSDs utilizes an advanced MLC controller, thus achieving higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance. According to Toshiba, the read speed of the new drives can reach a maximum sequential read speed of 240MBp) and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps.
In addition, the drives offer AES data encryption to prevent unauthorized data access.
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