Seagate Works to Establish Industry Standard for SSD Endurance

From DailyTech: The technology behind HDDs is tried, true, and comfortable for consumers and enterprise customers alike. New technology in the form of the solid state drive (SSD) has slowly trickled into the environment with the promise of much higher performance than the traditional platter-based HDD can provide.

The trade off with any new technology is that durability can be an unknown, which leads enterprise customers looking for storage for crucial systems to be weary of new technology. Seagate previously stated that in 2009 it intends to enter into the SSD market. Before jumping into the market with both feet, Seagate is working on alleviating fears in what it believes to be the key SSD market -- high demand enterprise markets.

To dispel fears Seagate believes that large enterprise customers need to be convinced of the durability of the SSD. To convince these customers Seagate is working to develop an industry standard for durability with the JEDEC standards body. Seagate's Rich Vignes is quoted by CNET News saying, "As companies like Seagate start to demonstrate field-proven reliability and endurance in enterprise applications, we'll overcome those (solid-state drive) endurance fears."

Seagate also says that it has decades of experience with error correction in storage media and that it can apply its experience with error correction from HDDs to new SSD products. Once the fears of the enterprise user can be quelled, Seagate sees speed driving adoption of the SSD. Industry Analyst Gregory Wong said, "SSDs have 100 times better random IOPS than HDDs."

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