http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital enters SSD market via $65m SiliconSystems acquisition http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/so SSDs gonna b cheaper now that we got some real competition going on.. WOOOT!!
HAIL TO THE HDDs!! even cheaper!!
imagine buyin now a 1tb hdd for 40 bucks??
how cool would that b?]]>Mar 30th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
I'm not an expert but from what I heard the problem with SSDs was that only one company (JMicron) makes cheap SSD controllers. Remove the 'cheap' from that line and there's still only two companies making controllers for consumer drives - JMicron and Samsung (plus Intel, who don't sell theirs). Not exactly a lot of competition there.

Maybe Silicon Systems actually make their own controllers and it's that expertise WD is hoping to bring to the consumer market in new products. Otherwise, I don't really see what this adds - i.e. will this just be the WD brand slapped on yet another SSD that's using the same JMicron/Samsung controller and the same (probably Samsung) flash memory as everyone else (and for approximately the same prices).]]>Mar 30th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
heh i stil love em]]>Mar 30th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/western-digital-developing-20-000rpm-raptor-to-take-on-ssds/

Quite the romantic idea... hard drives making their last desperate stand against the onslaught of SSDs. Too bad it never happened.]]>Mar 30th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2008/06/06/western-digital-working-on-20-000-rpm-raptor/1]]>Mar 31st 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/24/western-digital-does-not-believe-in-ssds-santa-claus/

That's quite a rapid change of tune. Like some of the other commenters, I've had good experiences with WD. I'll be happy to buy their SSD products when they're available and affordable.]]>Mar 30th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
The speeds are getting crazy fast now with the ocz vertex and intel drives, sata3 drives and pci-e flash drives are coming soon too:) Cant wait to buy a sata3 60gb+ SSD for £100, just gotta wait 6 months or so i reckon.]]>Mar 30th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/"WD has already made clear that it hopes to sell SSDs for the netbook, client and enterprise markets".

I assume that they're going to use the acquired technology for this...]]>Mar 30th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
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I can use a HDD for storage and SSD to run my OS and application installs.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
Guys?]]>Mar 30th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/Mar 30th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
"We are delighted to have the SiliconSystems team join WD," said John Coyne, president and CEO of WD. "The combination will be modestly accretive to revenue and margins as a result of SiliconSystems' existing position as a trusted supplier to the well-established $400 million market for embedded solid-state drives. SiliconSystems' intellectual property and technical expertise will significantly accelerate WD's solid-state drive development programs for the netbook, client and enterprise markets, providing greater choice for our customers to satisfy all their storage requirements."]]>Mar 30th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
almost all of mine failed in less than half a year, and unfortunately, along with all my data. Unless they prove reliable again, I would pay a bit more for Samsung or Hitachi SSDs.]]>Mar 31st 2009 12:26AM