Seagate releases a consumer SSD

The new Pulsar solid state drive goes up to 200GB.

Storage maker Seagate has released its first solid-state disk (SSD) for the great unwashed.

The outfit had been releasing SSDs to a few of its selected customers since September, but its Pulsar SSD drive is the first one into the shops.

It uses SLC technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity and is built in a 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface.
Seagate is famous for its hard drives but has been dragging its feet a bit with SSDs.

Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president, Sales, Marketing, and Product Line Management, who needs extra storage to cover the length of his title, said that Seagate is optimistic about SSDs for the enterprise.

Pulsar seems mostly intended for servers and blades. It achieves peak performance of up to 30,000 read I/O's per second (IOPS) and 25,000 write IOPS, delivering data throughput of 240MBps sequential read and 200MBps sequential write.

Seagate is not telling how much it plans to flog its Pulsar SSDs for. You can have a look at snaps of it here.

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7 Comments

AMD AKIMBO Dec 9, 2009 11:41 AM	Where's the mainstream drives ?
tunksy Dec 9, 2009 11:42 AM	...finally Seagate are doing something with SSD's, now its only a matter of time! bahahahaha!
majestic975 Dec 9, 2009 3:02 PM	Nice. I'm getting a boner just thinking about my next upgrade :)
johnny05 Dec 9, 2009 11:00 PM	to majestic975. i think its time you find a girlfriend mate.
thesorehead Dec 10, 2009 10:43 AM	johnny05 - he's building one. With a Seagate SSD for all the ... entertainment software.
SceptreCore Dec 10, 2009 7:17 PM	Seagate are probably just making sure that their SSD's are up to their reputation and standard of quality data storage devices. Aside from a certain Firmware problem recently!
widow_mak3r Dec 12, 2009 10:54 PM	lol nice. i doubt i'll be one of the first to buy it, i rather see other people spend their money on new tech to see it fail haha. i would love to setup a nice rig with a few of them as a server. connect it to a nice wired and wireless network and things will be sweet for me.

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