| SanDisk CEO: Vista is Not a Friend to [Our] SSDs |
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Posted by Winston Chim
on Wednesday, 23 July 2008. 12:18 GMT
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According to SanDisk ... Vista doesn't like SSDs. In fact, the performance was very poor, and it seems that Vista was not optimized for flash memory solid state disk. Excuses or fact? Dailytech "SanDisk CEO blames its SSD performance woes on Windows Vista. Solid state disk (SSD) news has been coming in fast during the past few weeks. Most of the big revelations have been at the low-end of the SSD market with multi-level cell (MLC) based products, but single-level cell (SLC) based products have had their fair share of coverage as well.Despite the hype surrounding the promising technology, SanDisk is placing blame on Windows Vista for not providing enough of a speed boost when using SSDs. SanDisk CEO Eli Harari went so far as to say that Vista is the reason why SanDisk is being left behind by competing solutions. "We have very good internal controller technology, as you know...That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment," explained 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." "The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls," Harari added. "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." |
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