How did intel get into SSDs?

digibucc · Jun 7, 2010

I was just thinking about it - and not just into it, but a leader in the market.

I would expect ram manufactures to have the best leading (corsair, kingston,ocz etc) and then maybe platter hdd makers even though it's a different beast.

but intel does neither.... how did they get into the SSD market AND do so well? is it as simple as they decided it was a good market, and put r&d in and pay someone else to make everything?

Phxprovost · Jun 7, 2010

because Intel's a giant that pushes all aspects of the tech industry...its what they do

lemode · Jun 7, 2010

And on the flip side…Western Digital made a crappy attempt at getting into the SSD market. Now bare drives are bare drives…but I expected a HDD manufacturing company such as Western Digital to produce a better SSD than the POS they did bring out to the market.

jellyrole · Jun 7, 2010

Intel already made NAND and implementing it with SSD's was easy for there R&D team because the massive budget they have.

Phxprovost · Jun 7, 2010

lemode said:
but I expected a HDD manufacturing company such as Western Digital to produce a better SSD than the POS they did bring out to the market.

why? they are two completely different things. Intel actually makes its own flash IC's and controllers last time i checked, WD is just grabbing parts off the market and hobbling together a working product like most others.

mlee49 · Jun 7, 2010

Phxprovost said:
why? they are two completely different things. Intel actually makes its own flash IC's and controllers last time i checked, WD is just grabbing parts off the market and hobbling together a working product like most others.

WD was the leading hdd manufacture, not to mention the most recognized of the personal performance drive.h Raptor line up.

We know WD is a leading Mechanical drive manufacturer but as one of the largest market shares in storage they have really lacked effort in the SSD battle. I assume the are going to maintain their ground in the mech dr field.

Phxprovost · Jun 7, 2010

mlee49 said:
I assume the are going to maintain their ground in the mech dr field.

theres really nothing else they can do, unless they somehow acquire Intel or Samsung, they lack the ability to efficiently gain a large SSD market share.

hat · Jun 7, 2010

Yeah, I'm not moving to SSD any time soon. There are 1TB drives available on newegg, but they cost between 3 and 4 thousand dollars... why do that when I can get a 1TB mechanical drive for $100 (WD Caviar Black) that will still have killer performance? I'm happy with my 150GB Raptor X, the old SATA I flagship that's considered slow by today's 7200RPM drives, such as the WD Caviar Black I mentioned before, and the Samsung F3 drives that Dippy mentioned, and those Seagate 7200.12s...

I see RAM manufacturers taking leads in the SSD department, specifically SSD, Corsair... Intel is a bit of a suprise since they aren't in the RAM department, but then again, I'm not really suprised seeing SSDs come from Itel.

digibucc · Jun 7, 2010

jellyrole said:
Intel already made NAND and implementing it with SSD's was easy for there R&D team because the massive budget they have.

Phxprovost said:
Intel actually makes its own flash IC's and controllers

i didn't realize that, i thought it was all outsourced.

thanks everyone

just curious...

lemode · Jun 7, 2010

Phxprovost said:
theres really nothing else they can do, unless they somehow acquire Intel or Samsung, they lack the ability to efficiently gain a large SSD market share.

which is basically the point you originally questioned.

Phxprovost · Jun 7, 2010

lemode said:
which is basically the point you originally questioned.

you lost me :wtf:

mlee49 · Jun 7, 2010

Phxprovost said:
theres really nothing else they can do, unless they somehow acquire Intel or Samsung, they lack the ability to efficiently gain a large SSD market share.

Intel or Samsung could probably buy out WD :laugh:

jellyrole · Jun 7, 2010

Intel taking them would make them that much bigger..kinda scary.

v12dock · Jun 7, 2010

Samsung is better than Intel

Deleted member 3 · Jun 7, 2010

They've been market leader in flash chips since forever, SSD's are just a new application of the same technology.

AsRock · Jun 7, 2010

Well WD will make some better SSD's. The 1st ones near all of them had the same issue The beloved controller they had on them.

In fact i bet they are putting more in to making better ones now even more so with new controllers are being released all the time.

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