WD starts delivering SiliconDrive III SSD series
- Friday, June 26, 2009, 12:19
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Western Digital has now come on the board to roll out their latest SiliconDrive III SSDs. This latest range of SSDs boasts of providing better read and write speeds with superior capacities and mechanical scalability.
The SiliconDrive III SSD, the company says, is touted to be suitable for built-in system and data streaming apps. It is included with Parallel ATA (PATA) drives and 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA). Besides, the SiliconDrive III is featured with 1.8-inch Micro SATA products, which come integrated with ATA-7 interfaces or native SATA 3.0 gigabits each sec (Gbps). With the utmost capacity of 120GB, these products boast of offering utmost 80 MBps write speeds and 100 MBps read speeds.
Michael Hajeck, Senior VP and GM, solid state storage business unit, WD, said that the SiliconDrive III is the 1st instance of how WD is chalking out plans to promote solid state technology, which has been brought about by SiliconSystems. As its features, the SiliconDrive III will also let WD to control its worldwide distribution and sales channels to grow the adoption of SSD technology ahead of SiliconSystems’ usual built-in systems OEM customer base into data streaming apps as data center media appliances and multimedia content delivery systems. SiliconDrive III is the perfect solution for OEMs, requiring better performance, capacity, data throughput and reliability in their apps.
As the reviews, the WD SSD also boasts of delivering better performance with superior dependability making use of WD’s patent-pending and patented sophisticated storage technologies like the SiSMART, PowerArmor and SolidStor. These technologies meet the important OEM design needs.
Such as, these technologies are capable of preventing the corruption of drive, which is brought about by power anomalies. Besides, the hi-fi storage technologies claim to offer data integrity and guarantee SSD durability for the deployment of multi-year product.
Western Digital SiliconDrive III SSDs are now being rolled out in the market, but as to their pricing, there is no info.
