Seagate has announced its latest offering, the Pulsar, a solid state drive particularly for use in large data centers, where over a thousand servers function and operate together to power systems for major firms and agencies like Google and Amazon to the Pentagon. The drive boasts a capacity of up-to 200GB and is entering a very competitive market, but the makers are optimistic about their offering.

"Seagate is late to the game, but it's not like the game is over", said Joseph Unsworth, an analyst with Gartner.

Industry experts are of the view that SSDs are the future of the industry, as these are much faster, and as opposed to traditional hard drives, do not have any moving parts and are therefore more robust. Analysts are of the view that their prices are set to go down as the technology improves.

Seagate Vice President Dave Reinsel has said that the firm is "in a unique position to fortify its leading enterprise storage position with its entry into the enterprise solid state storage market", while talking about the new offering.

Although the use of SSDs is limited as of now due to their high cost, experts are convinced that the use will be more widespread in future.