SanDisk, Seagate Debate Data-Storage Future

January 10, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Many questions have been raised by consumers’ shifting focus to smartphones and tablet-style PCs. Sanjay Mehrotra seems to like answering them a bit more than Steve Luczo.

Luczo is CEO of Seagate, the big maker of computer disk drives. Mehrotra was recently given the top job at SanDisk, which holds a similarly strong position in the chip-based data-storage medium known as flash memory. They talked about their businesses during separate interviews at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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