Seagate teams up with DensBits for SSD development

Although Seagate has a line of Pulsar solid-state drives designed for enterprise markets and a small collection of hybrids for notebooks, it's thus far shied away from producing consumer-grade SSDs. Looks like that's about to change. The hard drive maker has announced a "strategic agreement" to develop both consumer and enterprise SSDs with a company called DensBits.

What does DensBits bring to the table? Controller technology—a so-called Memory Modem that purportedly improves the performance and reliability of NAND built on smaller fabrication nodes.