SanDisk Buying SSD Developer Pliant Tech

[exfileme]

Sandisk is buying enterprise SSD developer Pliant Technology for $327 million.

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[eddieroolz]

So the consolidation of SSD makers begin, much like how it happened with HDD makers?

Not that its a bad thing, if the consolidated companies promise to devote more to research and innovating on multiple fronts.

 

[macewrox]

Hopefully Microsoft configures Windows 8 to have more adaptability to SSD's, I have to do a checkdisk on mine every five boots. Or if they make a SSD version of it that works differently - since HDDs are all about queues.

 

[figgus]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]So the consolidation of SSD makers begin, much like how it happened with HDD makers?Not that its a bad thing, if the consolidated companies promise to devote more to research and innovating on multiple fronts.[/citation]

In this case, you get two minor players combining to possibly form a real alternative to the bigger players. Not entirely a bad thing imo, this time the consolidation might add another realistic choice and drive further innovation in the market.

 

[dread_cthulhu]

Interesting... hope to see some real fruit off of this seed.

 

[virtualban]

*checking beard growth while waiting for prices to come down enough for SSD upgrades to make more sense than an upgrade in graphics or CPU for gaming experience*

 

[fir_ser]

I hope they expand to the consumer market and offer some SSD there, and that’s to heat up the competition and lower the prices.

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]virtualban[/nom]*checking beard growth while waiting for prices to come down enough for SSD upgrades to make more sense than an upgrade in graphics or CPU for gaming experience*[/citation]
Casually coming back years later, still SSD make less sense than upgrading other components. My beard is growing quite nicely.

 

[virtualban]

p.s. 3x 1 TB raid 0 with 32 MB cache on each HDD, quite nice in performance, capacity, and price.