Origin Storage slams TDK's grand plan

Storage integrator says TDK's bid to replace laptop hard drives with solid state drives will fail

In the battle between SSD and magnetic hard drives the price and durability advantages of SSD are being eroded

Hard drive vendor TDK’s plan to replace magnetic hard drives with its new range of solid state drives (SSDs) is doomed to failure, according to systems integrator Origin Storage.

The firm has claimed in the battle between SSD and magnetic hard drives the price and durability advantages of SSD are being eroded – especially when concerning secure storage applications.

Andy Cordial, managing director of Origin Storage, said the fact that external 2.5in from factor drives are available in rugged casing means they give SSDs a run for their money.

He said: “SSDs definitely have their place in the storage hierarchy, but their applications – in rugged and other specialist situations – cannot hope to replace the flexibility and longevity that a magnetic drive offers most laptop users.

“The only real advantage that SSD continues to offer over magnetic drive storage is speed of read/write access, but given that we are dealing in milliseconds, the big question is whether consumers will pay for a faster but significantly smaller drive.”

Cordial said notebooks, where SSDs are installed in place of magnetic hard drives, have limited memory.

“The number of drive write transactions can be high, especially under the Windows operating system,” he added.