Western Digital enters consumer SSD market Written on March 3, 2010, by Scott.
After aquiring SiliconSystems, an enterprise SSD start-up, WD finally announced today the introduction of their consumer product line SiliconEdge Blue. The announcement leaves Hitachi as the sole remaining major hard disk drive manufacturer not offering a consumer SSD (Hitachi is integrating Intel drives on the enterprise side). Interestingly WD decided use a third party for their controller instead [...]