Comments on: Western Digital: “We’ll do SSDs when we feel like it”

By: hmm

hmm — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:11:48 +0000

Anyone that thinks WD or Seagate isn’t pumping money into developing their own in-house SSD products is an idiot. Believe me…

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:17:02 +0000

True what you say. But considering the amount of hard drives out there and the precision of their machinery, I’d say the amount that actually do fail is amazingly small.

Still, though, WD should be getting into the market, whether it likes it or not. Thats certain.

By: Chet Kuhn

Chet Kuhn — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:54:16 +0000

The reason that we think of spinning hard drives as volatile and archaic is that they are volatile and archaic.

Every ‘fatal’ computer failure that I or my family or my friends have had has been a hard drive failure. Period. No other component in a modern computer will fail with anywhere near the same frequency as spinning hard drives. And I’ll reserve my comment on pointing out how many of these failed products have had Western Digital written on them.

My very first flash memory product, however, and every single one of them I’ve purchased since, continues to read and write to memory flawlessly, quickly, and silently.

Western Digital deserves what they get if they continue to ignore these facts.

By: John Danenbarger

John Danenbarger — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:45:26 +0000

I have seen company after company hold back on developing new products/markets because…well, because. But I do not quite understand the safety of SSD’s. I am probably completely wrong, but I worry more about some sort of shock wiping out my SSD, because I have seen it happen on little 2GB thumb drives.

By: Ankit Gupta

Ankit Gupta — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:06:27 +0000

A change I see happening along with the adoption of SSD’s is a movement to things being stored in a “cloud” on the web. I don’t think the manufacturing volume can yet support having everything on SSD’s and so as demand for cloud storage increases, I’d bet my money on their (server) specific demand for hard drives increasing. HDD’s have had a lot more time to mature and can support the volume needed, unlike SSD’s.

I’d say that the market for servers using SSD’s won’t be something that happens for quite a long time and so sticking with the business model of manufacturing hard drives might work for them.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:03:14 +0000

And so, another nail was planted into their coffin. Big companies just don’t learn do they… you either create a market for your products or die as a follower. Samsung and other SSD manufacturers are right on the edge of producing drives with equivalent storage but at a higher price point. Drop the price and Seagate and their backwards friends are all out of business.

If Mr. Rutledge was working for me, he would have a pink slip waiting for him at his desk! Talk about a completely lack of vision!

Jon
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