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OCZ Technology And The Battle For The Solid State Drive Market – Seeking Alpha
OCZ Technology And The Battle For The Solid State Drive Market
July 23, 2012 | 19 comments | about: OCZ, includes: EPS, INTC, MU, PCM, STEC, STX, WDCWe wrote an article about the slow death of the hard-disk at the hands of solid state drives (SSDs), meeting some critics and even ridicule in the comment section. Now the ink of that article has hardly dried up and what do we see, Seagate (STX) is supposedly interested in taking over OCZ Technology Group (OCZ), the solid state drive king.
The rumor is serious enough to have propelled OCZ shares 23% higher on Thursday, and we see some vindication of our earlier article in the move, more especially in stuff like:
Analysts said an OCZ acquisition would boost Seagate’s margins and help it establish a firmer foothold in the lucrative enterprise segment, where SSDs are gaining popularity. [Reuters]
Quite a few commentators to our previous article touted ‘cloud storage’ as the growth opportunity for hard-disks. Well, perhaps, but we pointed out the simple fact of the superior speed and, even more importantly, energy efficiency of SSDs, something that really counts in server land. Energy costs are so important a part of server farms that electricity tariffs are an important determinant in their location.
Anyway, it’s no surprise that Seagate wants to take over an SSD player in general, and OCZ in particular. SSDs’ main disadvantages are price and capacity, but those disadvantages are narrowing:
The good news for those who are currently in the market to purchase a new SSD is that prices are in a steady and substantial decline according to TechReport. The steady decline in price of SSD storage combined with the increase in price for hard drive storage resulting from a massive flooding in Thailand means the difference in price between the two storage formats is getting closer and closer. [dailytech] [Read on here]
