Hitachi to phase out 1.0 and 1.8-inch drives, Fujitsu scraps plans to launch them

Filed under: StorageAs the flood of SSD announcements by the past couple days indicates, flash is rapidly gaining ground on traditional tough drive storage, and it may have just claimed it first victims: Hitachi has just announced that it will phase out production of 1.0 and 1.8-inch drives by the n…