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Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the favorite-whipping-boy dept.

PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"

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  1. Re:Pointing fingers by Yetihehe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So guess what? Drive manufacturers should make their own drivers to control their own hardware.

    In soviet linux programmers write drivers!

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  2. Fluff by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Windoze Fistya not optimized for..." everything else is just fluff.

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  3. Re:Unbelievable by el_coyotexdk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nwhen Chuck Norris uses Vista it actually feeds more power back in the net than it spends!