Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista

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.'"

Comments

Who cares about Vista?

[miffo.swe]

They should release an SSD version for Servers and Linux boxes in general and just ignore Vista while waiting. My eeePC runs Ubuntu Linux like a charm with its SSD and with a couple of simple alterations i have minimized disk writes to a bare minimum (log to memory, no indexing, write less often to disk and turn off browser cache etc). I very rarely see the disk light, this on a 512 MB internal mem computer.

Let Microsoft sort the numerous problems with Vista out.

to bill

[Hibagon]

fu bill! fu again!

Article massively biassed

[nmg196]

The article has been written in a massively biassed anti-MS tone for seemingly no reason (quelle suprise).

However I don't see why it's Vista's or MS's fault that the SSD manufacturers can't make a reliable SSD! Vista has no problems using a crappy old mechanical drive (30 year old tech), yet somehow MS are being blamed for Vista wearing out or 'not being optimised for' solid state drives! I fail to see how that's IN ANY WAY the fault of Vista or MS.

SSD makers need to simply catch up with modern operating systems and not blame them for writing too much data or writing data in funny patterns.

It's NOT Vista's fault that it wants to actually USE your operating system hard drive. It's a perfectly reasonable requirement!

Cue "you must be new here" and "it's slashdot, what did you expect" type posts.

Re:Unbelievable

[Computershack]

DUMB CUNT. If it were a Vista problem, then why is it only Sandisks SSD's that are having the issues when EVERY OTHER SSD WORKS ABSOLUTELY FINE ?

Re:Unbelievable

[Computershack]

Because it's not even a Vista problem you dumbass. If you bothered to do some research, you'd find it was purely Sandisks problems as all other SSDs from other manufacturers work perfectly fine.

See? Linux does make you stupid.