Tuesday, July 22nd 2008
Sandisk CEO: ''Windows Vista not Optimized for SSDs''
During a conference of the company's second quarter earnings, the CEO Eli Harari of Sandisk, a significant player in the solid state drive (SSD) industry said that Windows Vista would present a special challenge for solid state drive (SSD) makers. Says Harari: "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 hints at the design of Vista as a cause for performance not being upto the mark, adding that Sandisk's next generation drive controllers should aim to "basically compensate for Vista shortfalls".
"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," said Harari. Ironically, he has also been quoted saying that such issues didn't affect the "very low-end, ultra low-cost PCs" (read ULPCs), where existing controller technologies could handle 8 ~ 32 GB drive capacities. Clever choice of words since that's the segment that has drive manufacturers, both SSD and HDD, eying at since it's an emerging segment.
Source:
CNET
"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," said Harari. Ironically, he has also been quoted saying that such issues didn't affect the "very low-end, ultra low-cost PCs" (read ULPCs), where existing controller technologies could handle 8 ~ 32 GB drive capacities. Clever choice of words since that's the segment that has drive manufacturers, both SSD and HDD, eying at since it's an emerging segment.
33 Comments on Sandisk CEO: ''Windows Vista not Optimized for SSDs''
MS could easily turn the table and say that SD's products are not flexible enough.
Sandisk SSD's use the SATA bus.
Sandisk claims their SSD's can maintain a sustained read rate of 67MB/s.
The Theortical limit on SATA 2 (3Gb/s) is 376MB/s
On SATA 1 (1.5Gb/s) its 187.5 MB/s
Both bus speeds are considerably higher than the sustained rate of the SSDs.
That is why it would have been nice for him to drop a little technical info on his "Vista not optimized" statement. Where, exactly, is the problem occurring?
Whoops ... found this. Vista's the problem ? Doesn't appear that way.
and yea why chuck that statement out with no evidence.:confused:
Oh look, a 128gb SSD. Looks like they're finally getting to sub-par storage levels. But wait! It only comes at the low-low price of over $500!
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227345
I'd rather take this cool Western Digital Caviar 1TB drive forr $240
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136206
The only funny part of it is how Harari is complaining about vista when its basically his drives which are too slow.
They're just trying to get people to buy their SSD's under the illusion that if Microsoft fixes their "problems" it will perform better. Yawn.
i've never seen this USB problem you speak of in vista.
I'm yet to see slow USB on vista, most lanners use vista x64 now around here and flash drives are the most common way of transferring files between us.
Besides that, Vista doesn't see SSD drive like Flash Drive, it sees them as a standard SATA drive.
I just know that any ntfs flash volume took forever to write to.
And don't get me started on file copy/delete lol. I've never waited 7 seconds to delete files that are tiny.
That's on a pretty fast system and fully defragged with O&O.
That's kinda why I said "consider yourself lucky" earlier lol. It might work for you, but I can find a million more where shit still doesn't work haha.