The boss of Seagate, the world's leading hard drive manufacturer, has warned that the company may take legal action against the makers of the solid state drives that are threatening its lucrative notebook business.

Bill Watkins believes that SSD makers such as Intel and Samsung violate Seagate patents that cover the methods by which storage drives communicate with computers.He did not elaborate, but it is clear that Watkins is prepared should SSDs begin to eat into Seagate's quarterly sales of more than $3 billion. But for the time being he believes SSDs will remain a peripheral technology

He is right that Seagate is safe for now. SSDs are an expensive technology. In the MacBook Air, for example, the 64GB SSD option adds almost £1,000 to the price. But prices are falling with the real possibility of a price war in the very near future, according to Fortune. Both Intel and Samsung have indicated that they are prepared to cut prices in order to grab a larger share of the notebook market. And Seagate will let you know at precisely which point SSDs have become a serious proposition for large numbers of laptop users, argues analysts' website Techdirt

"If you want to know the point at which Seagate has realised it's lost the battle, just look for when the infringement lawsuits come out," it says.

so dont you as a pc owner think its time for a change, new hard drives will be constructed of glass, not metal, when you format your present hard drive, whats on there stays on there formatting just  writes over the present drive, isnt it time for this primative system to change, and a hard drive produced that suits the pc owner, think about it processers, and ram have vastly improved, everything but the drive, I think its wrong that companys have the monopoly to control everything dont you lads,
hey jamie has posted somthing serious instead of porn wow totaly unreal aint it lol,

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