Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 31st Mar 2009 02:26 UTC
Western Digital, a leading maker of the traditional hard drive, supposedly felt a little out of the loop as they still hadn't really caught on to the solid-state disk bandwagon. Instead of playing a long game of catch-up, they simply forked out $65 million in cold cash and bought the technology they needed in the form of the aptly-named SiliconSystems, Inc. SiliconSystems has been making millions of SSDs for embedded systems for the past several years and will find a nice new home after integrating into the Western Digital Empire, henceforth being known as the "WD Solid-State Storage business unit." Since they're combining forces "immediately," here's to bigger and better SSDs in the near future.
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2005-07-12
Gee fella's I have had major problems with segate Maxtor and WD previously in till I learned the importance of MTBF.
I only buy the enterprise disks like ES2 shame I cant get them in 250GB capacity any more.
All consumer drive's ie cheep are crud for most of us.