Be interested to see how much that Mac book air will cost.
Samsung wins Apple MacBook contract, starts spitting out PCIe SSDs
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, third-party PCIe flash card suppliers, it tolls for thee. It looks like Samsung, Intel/Micron and SanDisk/Toshiba will be the only ones left standing when this whole PCIe flash clash is over. In the wake of its massive win with a contract to furnish Apple's upgraded MacBook Air as well as the …
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Monday 17th June 2013 15:49 GMT karlp
Exit Strategies
I am sure that one or two of these companies could, by showing some initiative, take their experience working with accelerating certain workloads and turn it more into a consultancy gig where they help companies with general app acceleration and workload efficiency tuning.
That said, most of the these flash-repackagers+secret sauce would do well to start shopping their engineering talent to the same companies they have been buying the underlying dies from.
Flash is growing up awfully quick right now, hopefully most of these people can avoid being caught-out.
Karl P
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Monday 17th June 2013 16:18 GMT Steve Knox
El Reg storage desk is fairly confident this means 1TB capacity products are coming...
The product is called the XP941 and comes in three capacity points: 128GB, 256GB and 512GB.
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[The XP941] occupies a seventh of the space of a 2.5-inch SSD.
1TB? Why not 3.5TB for those of us with 2.5-inch drive bays (and ~5 grand to spend on an SSD)?
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Tuesday 18th June 2013 09:49 GMT annodomini2
Re: Why can't I buy this for my workstation?
Volume and market demand, less demand for PCI-E cards, 2.5" SSD's work in laptops and desktops.
PCI-E you're stuck with full height desktops
mini-pcie work in laptops (with the right connectivity), ultrabooks and netbooks.
Desktop is a declining market so there is less incentive to invest.
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Tuesday 18th June 2013 15:54 GMT emv
SSD business consolidation
I hear people talk about how SSD vendors must be NAND supplier to be successful
In the HDD business, my understanding is that it USED to be that the media (disk), heads, controller, and PCB suppliers were part of HDD OEM... but now WD/HGST, Seagate buy those from suppliers or subcons. HDD OEMs are now assembly, test, and marketing houses. they also design the HDDs but purchase materials and subcontract components
is this true?