Filed under: Storage

As the flood of SSD announcements by the past couple days indicates, flash is rapidly gaining ground on traditional hard drive storage, and it may have just claimed it first victims: Hitachi has just announced that it will phase out production of 1.0 and 1.8-inch drives by the next year, and discontinue plans to launch a 1.5-inch line. Hitachi had only shipped 560,000 1.8-inch drives in the

July - September quarter, representing only 3.2 percent of its total drive sales, and just a miniscule 3,000 1.0-inch drives in the same period. Hitachi says it’ll keep supplying existing customers, but we’re hearing that 1.0-inch production has already stopped, and that 1.8-inch

production will cease by next summer.

Similarly, the rising popularity of flash in personal devices has led Fujitsu to scrap plans to develop […]

Orginal post by Nilay Patel