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06-16-2009, 06:30 PM
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| Western Digital Introduces Solid State Drives Western Digital today launched its SiliconDrive III solid state drive storage products, with technology based from its acquisition of SiliconSystems in March. WD will release 2.5-inch SATA and PATA and a 1.8" Micro SATA that have read speeds up to 100MB/s and write speeds up to 80MB/s, with storage capacities up to 120GB... DailyTech - Western Digital Introduces Solid State Drives |
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06-16-2009, 08:58 PM
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|  Re: Western Digital Introduces Solid State Drives This truly is great news. Great for more competition, lower prices. This is the beginning of the end for the mechanical drives IMHO. And the end of the MAJOR bottle neck of any system i.e. the relatively slow HDs compared to the 3 X - 4 X higher read speads of SSDs and approx 2 X - 3X higher write speeds. |
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06-16-2009, 10:18 PM
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06-17-2009, 12:03 AM
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| Re: Western Digital Introduces Solid State Drives "100MB/s and write speeds up to 80MB/s" Isn't that on the slow side for SSD's? |
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06-17-2009, 02:18 PM
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| this is good news because now one of the leading manufacturer's of mechanical drives is now officially onboard with SSD's...this can only help the growth of SSD's overall in terms of pricing and consumer acceptance...I only use WD drives so I'm glad they are now producing SSD's...I can only imagine what they have in development---a Raptor SSD?   but I also agree that SSD's have some issues that need to be addressed before they are truly a viable and better alternative to mechanical drives |
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06-17-2009, 06:26 PM
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