Wednesday, June 17th 2009
WD Begins Shipping New SATA/PATA Solid-State Drives
WD today announced that it has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive III SSD product family based on technology from its March 2009 acquisition of SiliconSystems. The company's new SiliconDrive III products feature faster read/write speeds and increased capacities, and offer mechanical scalability, making them a perfect storage solution for embedded system and data streaming applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data center media appliances.
SiliconDrive III SSDs include 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) and 1.8-inch Micro SATA products featuring native SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gbps) or ATA-7 interfaces with target read speeds up to 100 megabytes per second (MBps) and write speeds to 80 MBps in capacities up to 120 gigabytes (GB).
"SiliconDrive III is the first example of how WD plans to productize solid state technology developed by SiliconSystems. The launch of SiliconDrive III will also enable WD to leverage its global sales and distribution channels to accelerate the adoption of SSD technology beyond SiliconSystems' traditional embedded systems OEM customer base into data streaming applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data center media appliances," said Michael Hajeck, senior vice president and general manager of WD's solid state storage business unit. "SiliconDrive III is an ideal solution for OEMs that require increased performance, capacity, reliability and data throughput in their applications."
SiliconDrive III has been designed and optimized for high performance and high reliability in demanding 24x7 applications in the embedded systems, media appliance and data streaming markets. Performance and reliability is achieved through the integration of the company's patented and patent-pending advanced storage technologies in every SiliconDrive III product. The company's patented and patent-pending PowerArmor, SiSMART and SolidStor technologies address critical OEM design considerations such as the elimination of drive corruption due to power anomalies, the ability to monitor a SiliconDrive's useable life in real-time and integrated advanced storage technologies that ensure data integrity and SSD life for multi-year product deployments. Web site at www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=21.
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WD
"SiliconDrive III is the first example of how WD plans to productize solid state technology developed by SiliconSystems. The launch of SiliconDrive III will also enable WD to leverage its global sales and distribution channels to accelerate the adoption of SSD technology beyond SiliconSystems' traditional embedded systems OEM customer base into data streaming applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data center media appliances," said Michael Hajeck, senior vice president and general manager of WD's solid state storage business unit. "SiliconDrive III is an ideal solution for OEMs that require increased performance, capacity, reliability and data throughput in their applications."
SiliconDrive III has been designed and optimized for high performance and high reliability in demanding 24x7 applications in the embedded systems, media appliance and data streaming markets. Performance and reliability is achieved through the integration of the company's patented and patent-pending advanced storage technologies in every SiliconDrive III product. The company's patented and patent-pending PowerArmor, SiSMART and SolidStor technologies address critical OEM design considerations such as the elimination of drive corruption due to power anomalies, the ability to monitor a SiliconDrive's useable life in real-time and integrated advanced storage technologies that ensure data integrity and SSD life for multi-year product deployments. Web site at www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=21.
26 Comments on WD Begins Shipping New SATA/PATA Solid-State Drives
Why does it seem like all Hard Drive manufacturers are focusing almost only on SSD's and leaving HDD's behind?
"with target read speeds up to 100 megabytes per second (MBps) and write speeds to 80 MBps"
which in real-speak means they dont come anywhere close in anything other than optimal block read/write mode.
And you certainly dont need to boast SATA 3GB/s when the performance is operating a fraction of those speeds.
On second thoughts, if they maintain the advertised performance for PATA interface, then there is a market for these: cheap upgrades of older machines.
Price accordingly.
I'd be more than welcome for one of these as an OS drive in either of my machines, for the access times.
Those drives with fast speeds are merely two of these with internal RAID anyway.
lets just stay happily optimistic, that WD will release these as the first SSD's with a decent price. if not, hey, another reason to not buy WD drives.
you guys should exchange numbers seems like a progressive relationship (no intent to flame here :P)
OK, let me talk with you instead. Got anything to say about the WD SSDs? No? STFU. :laugh: ;)
Otherwise, I like my Blacks :)
you cant just compare reliability. you should take into consideration how prominent of a market leader they are. they have been the first to many different storage capacities. they have excellent performing products for each market not to mention how well it is simplified
but the one fact that really tuned me to them was cause they introduced raptors to us gamers/performance enthusiasts
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=90510&highlight=clunk
I never owned the seagate 1.5tb either but sure read a lot bad about it. having said that I still think highly of seagate. I like them a lot but prefer WD over them
many users experience problems with hardrives due to bad shipping handling and have no clue
As much as everyone loves blaming other things, samsungs and seagates dont die on the same machine, on the same power and sata cables.