For years and years I always favoured western digital IDE and Sata drives but how comes they aren't a player and right up there in the solid state market ? I currently use a crucial M4 but it did occur to me tonight why isn't western digital leading the way in the ssd bracket ?
What has happened to western digital ?
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Samsung hold most of the cards at the moment. From TV's to Tablets to Fridges to Hard Disks to Medical Equipment to Phones (including major iPhone 5 components) to SSD's, and much much more. They manufacture almost everything electronic and do few things poorly.
Samsung are the new Sony and even the World's most profitable company is now running scared of them. They also now manufacture the world's fasted consumer HDD's and SSD's, and arguably the best phones, tablets, and memory IC's across multiple spectrum's.
In regards to WD, they simply missed the SSD boat that everyone else saw coming.
Samsung are the new Sony and even the World's most profitable company is now running scared of them. They also now manufacture the world's fasted consumer HDD's and SSD's, and arguably the best phones, tablets, and memory IC's across multiple spectrum's.
In regards to WD, they simply missed the SSD boat that everyone else saw coming.
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Maybe WD are biding their time in the SSD market!
It's still relatively early days in terms of heavy storage on SSD's so WD can sit back, soak up the inevitable mechanical storage demand with a good selection and then jump into the SSD market once the bugs have been ironed out a bit more!
Just a theory!
It's still relatively early days in terms of heavy storage on SSD's so WD can sit back, soak up the inevitable mechanical storage demand with a good selection and then jump into the SSD market once the bugs have been ironed out a bit more!
Just a theory!
As much as I love my iPhone 4, I really hope Samsung get their own back against the Apple bullies. Proper sick of Apple's crap. Rant over
Back on topic, the OP raises a good point and I'm surprised it hasn't crossed my mind before. From my own experience, WD are good, but overrated.
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As much as I love my iPhone 4, I really hope Samsung get their own back against the Apple bullies. Proper sick of Apple's crap. Rant over
Back on topic, the OP raises a good point and I'm surprised it hasn't crossed my mind before. From my own experience, WD are good, but overrated.
Get what back, Samsung get paid for every Samsung phone/tablet/laptop made and currently get paid for every Apple phone and tablet that gets made, and in not too long will be paid for every Apple laptop that gets made also..... Samsung manufacture Apple's chips.
Which is why its rather laughable that they sued their currently only supplier over making a device which is so close to theirs, a bog standard phone/tablet design.
Western digital simply don't have any reach into the memory market beyond being a very small level buyer of the cheapest/slowest memory chips for cache. As others have said the big players in the SSD market produce memory chips so have a monumental advantage, in the early days ssd's were VERY high margin products with low volume, but they've turned commodity with memory chips being the difference in cost between drives more than anything else. Considering the profit comes from getting cheaper chips, those who buy the chips rather than make them are at a huge disadvantage, that is why OCZ bought a controller company because profit was disappearing from SSD's from them. Corsair have bought Link media to do the same thing. We'll have magnetic storage for a long time, and there is no profit for Western to jump into the SSD market, just huge start up costs to jump into a tiny margin business.
Don't Western Digital own Hitachi GST? That I believe has given them a presence in the SSD world and I think Seagate are trying to acquire OCZ, which seems to have a stumbling block.
While SSD are probably the future for main hard drives I think for the next few years for the bigger storage drives the more conventional drives will still be king.
While SSD are probably the future for main hard drives I think for the next few years for the bigger storage drives the more conventional drives will still be king.