Seagate sees big drive capacity jump coming

Seagate expects a significant increase in disk capacities this year and reckons it's got the jump on the competition.

Stifel Nicolaus' Aaron Rakers was present at recent Seagate analyst briefing and has posted a note to clients explaining Seagate's view of the world.

First of all Seagate is unfazed by the supposed coming tablet boom, with dozens of flash-using tablets bursting through the doors blasted open by the iPad,and multi-level cell flash posed to make inroads into the netback and notebook markets.