As far as comparing them to other drives, we don't like to bash other brands or get into stuff like that, the best advice we can offer is to research reviews online and compare the characteristics that matter to you in the product type you're looking for and go with whichever feels like the best fit. Thank you for considering Seagate!

There's definitely some interesting things in the works for us trying to expand our portfolio in the flash space. We have a line of hybrid drives called FireCuda which use SSD as a cache and then have a larger spinning storage capacity as well. We recently announced a 64TB enterprise-level NVMe SSD, here's a press release on that, and we are building on our brand of SSDs known as Nytro as well. 

We recently were part of a big deal to acquire a supply of NAND flash, here's a story on it, we are excited to see where this takes us in the future.