Seagate finally enters the Solid State Device (SSD) market this Christmas with their Pulsar branded line of solid state drives. The use of non-volatile flash memory, rather than spinning magnetic media, increases both the speed and reliability of the data stored. With a capacity raging from 50GB to 200GB and a SATA 3Gb/s interface, the Seagate Pulsar enters the market far from the lead.
The ST9200011FS SSD is a 200GB SATA 3Gb/s interface with a sustained transfer rate of 240,000Mb/s and an I/O data transfer rate of 300MB/s. Seagate is however leveraging their expertise in enterprise reliability with an Annual Failure Rate of .44%. With a very solid operational shock rating of 1500Gs, Seagate SSD is squarely aimed at the enterprise market.
