Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Gateway to SSD-cost Western Digital drives in 65 million dollars.

Western Digital Company has bought the company SiliconSystems for 65 million dollars, reports Computerworld. This transaction allows Western Digital to begin production of solid state (SSD) drives under its own brand.
SiliconSystems The company was founded in 2002. It is a production of solid-state drives, and development of technologies to improve their reliability. In particular, SiliconSystems has created a program PowerArmor, prevent errors in the work of the drive.
While representatives from Western Digital is not raised no plans to release SSD-drives under its own brand. SiliconSystems to absorption produces various drives based on flash memory. Among them, SSD-drives in the 2.5 - and 1.8-inch form factor that can replace the hard drive in notebooks and netbukah.
Western Digital is the second largest producer of hard drives in the world. The leader of this market - the company Seagate. It should begin to release solid state drives by the end of 2009.
The main advantages of solid-state drives over hard disks are low power and high speed. In addition, SSD-drives are not noisy. However, their production costs significantly higher than that of the hard drive.

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