SSDs remain significantly more expensive than hard disk storage, and the theoretical performance advantage is still largely unrealized.

Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Monday said it had filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against STEC, a maker of solid-state drives (SSDs) and computer memory products.

Seagate CEO Bill Watkins announced the lawsuit in a letter posted on the company’s Web site.

In contrast to the $7 billion Seagate has spent on research and development over the past 10 years, work that has resulted in a portfolio of 3,900 patents, Watkins said that “others in our industry have taken shortcuts in the race to innovate, and in the process, we believe they are relying on intellectual property developed or acquired by Seagate to their own benefit.”

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