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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Western Digital Joins The SSD Brigade

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 01:30 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/0...6/wds_own_ssds/

"WD has announced its SiliconDrive III product range based on SiliconSystems' technology and targeted pretty much at the same networks: communications, industrial, embedded computing, data centre, aero-space, military and OEM medical markets, which prize reliability and data integrity highly. These are products with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces, not SAS or Fibre Channel or PCIe."

While this does not mean you can waltz down to your nearest Circuit City CompUSA local computer store to pick up a slick new Western Digital SSD, Western Digital's entry does mean that you will be able to soon. Of course, where Western Digital treads, Seagate will not be far behind, which can only mean the two big HDD manufacturers will duke it out, sooner, rather than later, in the SSD space, and we can only benefit with cheap SSDs! I just hope that they will not make too many compromises in the upcoming battle. That and cheaper SSDs soon!


Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Western Digital Finally Joins SSD Club

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 05:00 PM

http://www.dailytech.com/Western+Di...rticle14712.htm

"Hard drive maker Western Digital has announced that its acquisition of SSD manufacturer SiliconSystems has been completed. The acquisition cost Western Digital $65 million in cash. SiliconSystems is a leading supplier of SSDs for the embedded systems market."

I have to say that the writing has been on the wall that SSDs are going to replace hard disk drives for quite some time. This is why I find it surprising that Western Digital has taken so long to get involved. Sure, solid state is still quite expensive but prices are coming down, capacity is going up. Several companies have already have built up a good reputation for SSDs and now Western Digital has an uphill battle. Still, it is good to see another major manufacturer enter the market since it should mean that prices will continue to drop. I've yet to jump on the bandwagon but I've seen the performance difference it can make. The future of Solid State is now just that much closer.


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