Seagate is committed to actively promote solid state drives, but to throw a traditional HDD-business does not plan. This is written by DigiTimes with reference to Seagate B, Senior Vice President, Global Sales. Those (B. Teh).

He predicts that about 90% of laptops, which will be released to the world market in the next five years, will get SSD-drives. Demand for the past significantly reduce the sale of hard drives, so Seagate plans to more actively develop SSDs.

However, the company intends to keep investing resources in research and development of HDD, such as high-capacity device is still in high demand in the market, said a top manager of Seagate.

In 2014, Seagate acquired from LSI (owned by Avago) for the production of business solutions for flash memory for $ 450 million.

Since then, Seagate has shipped more than 20 million SSDs. The Company does not intend to rest on our laurels and plans in 2017 to introduce SSD-drive capacity of 60 terabytes.

In addition to the computer market, the Seagate strengthens its position in sectors such as video surveillance systems, gaming solutions, consumer electronics and equipment for data centers. Products, non-PC, companies already producing more than 40% of revenue. In the next three years it is planned to increase this figure to 50%.