Digital Home Thoughts: Western Digital Joins The SSD Brigade

"WD has announced its SiliconDrive III product range based on SiliconSystems' technology and targeted pretty much at the same networks: communications, industrial, embedded computing, data centre, aero-space, military and OEM medical markets, which prize reliability and data integrity highly. These are products with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces, not SAS or Fibre Channel or PCIe."

While this does not mean you can waltz down to your nearest Circuit City CompUSA local computer store to pick up a slick new Western Digital SSD, Western Digital's entry does mean that you will be able to soon. Of course, where Western Digital treads, Seagate will not be far behind, which can only mean the two big HDD manufacturers will duke it out, sooner, rather than later, in the SSD space, and we can only benefit with cheap SSDs! I just hope that they will not make too many compromises in the upcoming battle. That and cheaper SSDs soon!