Seagate never thought SSD technology would pull off and they couldn't be more wrong. The SSD market is booming and while HDDs will continue to be used for a long time, SSDs continue to cream-off market-shares. In it's first steps into the SSD market, Seagate has teamed up with the Israeli company Densbits. Their Memory Modem controller technology will be integrated with Seagate’s various storage technologies to power MLC and TLC flash memory based SSD drives. This means Seagate aims for cheaper SSD drives and interestingly they didn't announce using the fastest, more reliable and most expensive SLC flash memory.
TLC on the other hand is the slowest kind of flash memory and has the least write cycles before it wears out. Densbits claims they have a solution for that, according to them, their own proprietary Memory Modem makes TLC memory as good as MLC memory. And even better they claim to make MLC memory enterprise ready, by making it as good as SLC memory.
