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Western Digital Enters the SSD Race
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Western Digital today announced that it will officially enter the SSD race with the acquisition of SiliconSystems.
Up until this point, major HDD manufacturers, save for Samsung, seemed reluctant to start making SSDs. Instead, you saw drives coming out left and right from companies that had never made storage devices in any significant capacity--USB drives don't count.
Known for its line of Raptor and Caviar drives, Western Digital is in a good position to capitalize on SSD demand. Its VelociRaptor drive is currently the fastest consumer HDD on the market, but even it cannot stand a chance against the fastest SSDs. Now with SiliconSystems in its portfolio, Western Digital is poised to make a big impact on both SSD technology itself and its adoption rate.
SiliconSystems had been focusing on SSDs for the last several years, but its customers are larger businesses with heavy IT infrastructures. Despite this, SiliconSystems will bring a wealth of goodies with it to WesternDigital.
According to the press release:
These markets accounted for approximately one third of worldwide solid-state drive revenues in 2008. SiliconSystems' product portfolio includes solid-state drives with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces in 2.5-inch, 1.8-inch, CF and other form factors. SiliconSystems has developed extensive intellectual property to address the stringent embedded systems market requirements to ensure data integrity, eliminate unscheduled downtime, protect application data and software and provide for data security and protection through its patented and patent-pending PowerArmor®, SiSMART®, SolidStor® and SiSecure™ technologies.
Western Digital has setup a brief Q&A to answer some questions in regards to its SiliconSystems acquisition. The acquisition commences immediately, and Western Digital says that it plans to keep all of SiliconSystems employees--roughly 100 people.
Financial details of the acquisition were not revealed.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
The more the better. Competition ftw
No Doubt, this is good news for us.
Nice, I want to see the Intel X-25 series meet its match in terms of efficient drive logic and raw performance.
Good luck to them. If they can bring down the cost of the Intel X series they'll make alot of people happy.
FINALLY
now lets see some velociraptor crack edition speeds
Sweet, maybe someone will be able to dethrone the X-25.
Let's hope WD can push the SSD's as far as they've pushed conventional HDD's!
Wish I had had stock in SiliconSystems just prior to the announcement.
Wish I had had stock in SiliconSystems just prior to the announcement.
Buy some Palm stock, Dell may be buying them out ;-)
What is the best part is that we may see some mixed systems. It would be nice to see an hard disk with integrated ssd parner. I could offer good performance of sdd and capicity of traditional hd in same paccage. Ofcource I don't have any idea how well that kind of combination would work, but it would be interesting to see.
The sdd would be like somekind of buffer memory between the system and hd. Can anyone say if it sould be usefull solution?
EP
EPIC announcement!
I am a WD fanboi, but even people who dislike the brand should see the benefits to come from this. It's a win/win/win for enthusiasts. The only down side to the tech world right now: when to start the new build? So many changes looming...
Yes , at last , WD sure FTW
WD should definitely leverage its Raptor/Velociraptor brand name by creating a less expensive SSD line and a higher-performance line.
Buy some Palm stock, Dell may be buying them out ;-)
I don't get it. Why would I want to throw my money onto a sinking ship? Here's hoping anyway.