Sunday, March 14, 2010
Western Digital unveils New SSDs for Performance and Reliability
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Bumtion Network
If you are in the market for a solid state drives(SSD), whether you are a home user that strive for performance or an OEM builderthat is looking for reliable storage to be embed on your next product, the newSSDs from Western Digital – SiliconDrive N1x and SiliconEdge Blue - might be able tosatisfy your needs.
“Satisfying the challenging storage demands for a wide variety of OEM applications, WD has designed the WD SiliconDrive N1x and WD SiliconEdge Blue product families to facilitate SSD technology adoption in a multitude of existing and expanding new markets that can benefit from advanced storage solutions.” - Michael Hajeck, senior vice president and general manager of WD’s solid state storage business unit.
While both WD SiliconEdge Blue and SiliconDrive N1xlooks physically the same, they actually operate at a different level from eachother. Sure, both of them are 2.5-inch drives and feature the same native SATA3.0 Gb/s interface but the SiliconEdge Blue in faster in terms of read and writespeed at 250/170 megabytes per second, compared to SiliconDrive N1x’s speed of240/128 megabytes per second.
That being said, as the SiliconDrive N1x is a single-levelcells based storage device, it is more reliable than its multi-level cells brother.That is exactly why the N1x is targeted at embedded system manufacturers thatrely on reliability and the WD SiliconEdge Blue is more for performance-demandingusers.
We have no pricing details of WD SlicionDrive N1x SSDsbut we do know that it is available in capacity up to 128 GB. As for WD SiliconEdge Blue line-up, they are standing at RM 979 for 64 GBmodel, RM 1,859 for 128 GB and RM 3,499 for 256 GB. Well, they aren’t cheapobviously but those are the price you got to pay for performance.
Meanwhile, don't forget to log in to WD's official website (http://www.westendigital.com) to find out more details about both SSDs line-up.
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