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Western Digital Launches First SSD
Vigile writes "The solid state disk market keeps getting more crowded, but the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue SSD marks the first offering from a player that currently dominates the market of traditional spindle-based hard drives. It was a year ago this month that WD purchased SiliconSystems for $65m, a small, enterprise-level SSD vendor that developed its own storage controller. Western Digital obviously made the move to prepare the company for the inevitable situation it finds itself in today: solid state has surpassed traditional media in performance and will likely soon become the mainstream storage choice for computers. PC Perspective has put the first consumer-level SSD option from one of the kings of HDDs through the wringer and found the drive to be a solid first offering, with performance on par with the some of the better solutions in the market while not quite fast enough to take away the top seatings from Intel and others. Western Digital has seen the writing on the wall; the only question is when the other players in the hard drive market will as well."
Hot Hardware ran their own series of tests, coming to a similar conclusion: "There is no question the SiliconEdge Blue doesn't light up the benchmarks like some of the more recent SSDs we've tested, but it's a solid product from a well-respected brand name storage company."
Pun not intended!
When you can't post on /. with your viewpoints without being modded down to hell unless you know your views are "popular", yeah, the mods are idiots.
When I am given mod points, I can tell the difference in a real troll and someone that just speaks their mind. Apparently, no one else can. Thus, idiots.
Truth hurts, I know. So change your ways, don't get mad at the truth.
I had a hard time understanding this until I could translate it into a car analogy. So it's like the new car batteries of today. No sign of failing just one day your car won't start. But the old batteries of yesteryear use to fail slowly, the car would barely crank over giving you plenty of notice and replace it before you have to call your wife to come pick you up at the strip club when you told her you were working late that night. Got it!
You know, you could have solved that problem.
Not the battery dying in the cold dark at 2 AM in the parking lot of the "gentleman's club". That battery is gonna die; there's no helping that.
But that awkward call to the missus... doesn't have to happen. Just make sure she works at the club. If she has her car, problem utterly solved. If not, at least you get to hang out with a stripper who is already predisposed to talk to you. Even if only to nag you about not having had that battery changed earlier. And the cat litter.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
You fool! Don't give them any ideas!