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    Western Digital Acquires SSD Business

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Jerry Jackson, Mar 30, 2009.

  1. Jerry Jackson

    Jerry Jackson Administrator NBR Reviewer

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    Western Digital, one of the world's largest mobile and desktop Hard Disk Drive manufacturers, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.

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    Since 2002, SiliconSystems has sold millions of SiliconDrive products and SiliconDrive accounted for approximately one third of worldwide solid-state drive revenues in 2008.

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    Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the "WD Solid-State Storage" business unit, complementing WD's existing Branded Products, Client Storage, Consumer Storage and Enterprise Storage business units.

    Official Western Digital Press Release

     
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    Jerry Jackson, Mar 30, 2009
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  2. boypogi

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    looks like a promising acquisition
     
    boypogi, Mar 30, 2009
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  3. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    hoping to hear some advancements with all the money that can put into R&D
     
    The_Moo™, Mar 30, 2009
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  4. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Hopefully the mechanical drive companies will have flash drives that are as good as Intels and Samsungs in terms of reliability and whatnot. So many of the flash drives on the market right now are utter garbage, far worse than a 5400RPM notebook drive.
     
    Wolfpup, Mar 30, 2009
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  5. Red_Dragon

    Red_Dragon Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Looks good hopefully they gives up better prices :D Though the prices are falling rapidly.
     
    Red_Dragon, Mar 30, 2009
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  6. Clutch

    Clutch cute and cuddly boys

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    I wonder if Seegate is going to do a similar thing.
     
    Clutch, Mar 30, 2009
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  7. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    Think this is the first of the HDD manufacturers to get involved in SSD? Hopefully, they will not accept using lousy controllers.
     
    goofball, Mar 30, 2009
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    Obviously not the first - that would be Samsung... :p
     
    highlandsun, Mar 30, 2009
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    right, other than Samsung. But really, what isn't samsung into? lol..
     
    goofball, Mar 30, 2009
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