Digital Home Thoughts: SanDisk Blames Windows Vista for SSD Performance Woes

"Solid state disk (SSD) news has been coming in fast during the past few weeks. Most of the big revelations have been at the low-end of the SSD market with multi-level cell (MLC) based products, but single-level cell (SLC) based products have had their fair share of coverage as well. Despite the hype surrounding the promising technology, SanDisk is placing blame on Windows Vista for not providing enough of a speed boost when using SSDs. SanDisk CEO Eli Harari went so far as to say that Vista is the reason why SanDisk is being left behind by competing solutions."

What do you do when your products don't perform as fast as the competition? You blame Windows Vista of course! Blaming Vista seems to be the thing to do, but apparently even under Windows XP the SanDisk SSD products perform poorly. So what mythical, market-leading OS did SanDisk design their products for?