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SSD HD Companies

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Motley

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Why don't companies like Western Digital and Seagate, etc, why don't they produce SSDs?

You would think the technologies development would transfer knowledge and experience from years and years of producing hard drives.
 
No synergy at all. Investing in NAND production would still make them years and years behind the other manufacturers in a field where prices are dropping rapidly.
 
WD did make the SiliconEdge Blue series. IDK what controller it used but it performed like a dog, small file performance is like a HDD on that thing. I don't think they've released anything new since about 2010.

Seagate is making the Momentus XT series. It's an HDD with some flash integrated into the HDD and managed by the internal firmware. Works with any OS and makes the drive faster than any spinning disk including the new 1 TB WDVR.
 
Motley said:
Why don't companies like Western Digital and Seagate, etc, why don't they produce SSDs?

You would think the technologies development would transfer knowledge and experience from years and years of producing hard drives.
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Actually, the only knowledge would be at the physical interface plug. Regular HDDs are about magnetics, miniaturized read-write heads, magnetic coatings, analog-to-digital amplifiers and decoders, error correcting codes, etc. Plus general mechanical engineering issues like motors, bearing design and evening out thermal loads, etc. In contrast, the SSDs are another form of digital memory technology.

I know guys who used to work in disk drives. ;)
 
Well, nowadays anybody is "making" SSDs, so they sure could. They probably figured it wouldn't make them enough money to be worth it.
 
Aesma said:
Well, nowadays anybody is "making" SSDs, so they sure could. They probably figured it wouldn't make them enough money to be worth it.
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"Making SSD's" is kind of a stretch for what most companies do. They buy flash chips from someone. They buy SSD controller chips from someone else. That company gives them the design for the the board and the firmware that the controller uses. The SSD company sends the design files and the firmware files to a manufacturer in China. The manufactuer sends them containers full of finished SSD's. There isn't a lot of "making" done by most brands that sell SSD's.

Some of the SSD companies tweak the board designs and some tweak the firmware a bit. Tweaking someone else's design is not "making" IMHO.

The two major exceptions are Samsung and to a lesser degree Intel.
 
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