Seagate Announces Demo of 12 Gb/s Solid-State Drives
Following Hitachi, Seagate also confirmed that it will be showcasing 12Gb/s SSDs at the SCSI Trade Association’s Technical Showcase on May 9.
According to a press release, Seagate will have its Pulsar.2 enterprise SSDs with a 12Gb/s SAS on display. The company said that the devices target cloud services and other enterprise applications "throughout all tiers of data storage." Seagate stressed that the interface will be initially integrated with SSDs to take advantage of "the high performance benefits of SSDs", but the technology is also compatible for use in higher-capacity enterprise hard drives. There was no announcement when 12 Gb/s HDDs will become available, but this seems to be a matter of when, not if.
Seagate noted that its 12 Gb/s implementation is "fully compatible with controllers and other technologies from PMC-Sierra and LSI." The company expects the 12Gb/s SAS standard to be finalized by the end of this year. First drives will be available sometime in 2013, while volume availability is predicted for H2 2013.
HGST announced last week that it will be demonstrating 12 Gb/s drives at the SCSI Trade Association’s Technical Showcase.

What are you talking about? SAS 2.0 (6gbps) was introduced in 2009. by the time this is released it'll be 4 years.
Which is roughly the same lifespan as SAS 1.0 (3gbps)
Do you have any information, besides that two almost completely unrelated devices failed, to support your claim?
Fixed it for you. Unless you have some inside knowledge on companies that will manufacture PCM devices, let's not get ahead of ourselves and assume that it will be here at all. Also, Flash still has tons of room for improvement where performance is concerned (OCZ has a 12TB 7.2GB/s max sequential PCIe SSD and a slower, but higher capacity at 16TB, 6GB/s max sequential PCIe SSD), so it probably won't get replaced any time soon, that is unless another technology with similar or greater performance comes out with lower cost per GB.
SSDs to get faster with SATA Express
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/03/08/ssds-faster-sata-express/1
SATA 4, 12 Gb/s (SATAe 16 Gb/s) for SSD's?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280390-32-sata-satae
What'd seagate ever do to you?
Well these are enterprice versions so no price drop in there... It is guite easy to see that these will cost 3-6$ GB at least, propably more...
Cheap house then. Very cheap house.
What is wrong with having a cheaper home? Not everyone can cough up $300k-$500k for a "normal" house.
I didn't say that there's anything wrong with it; I simply made an observation. Drives like these are unlikely to cost more than a few thousand dollars.