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Yeah seriously, SanDisk own patents to flash IIRC, their stuff is always less than their competitors. I hope WD isn't going to jack up prices.
by digitalzombie 11y ago
Yeah seriously, SanDisk own patents to flash IIRC, their stuff is always less than their competitors.
I hope WD isn't going to jack up prices.
- dogma1138 11y agoSandDisk SSD's aren't cheaper, not when you are comparing oranges to oranges, they sell allot of very very low end SSD's their performance series costs more than comparable drives from Samsung. There are other companies that also sell cheap SSD's like Micron and Crucial but the big names Samsung, Intel, OCZ(Toshiba) usually sell quite high end devices. Samsung pretty much blew the market out of the water with their Evo series it comes very close to the performance of it's Pro series and other high end SSD's out there where it comes to real world use at a fraction of the cost. It brought the costs of SSD's down to less than 350$ per TB while keeping outstanding performance and life span.
- dragontamer 11y agoMicron seems to be the cheapest in my experience, aside from TLC crap from Samsung.
- whoopdedo 11y agoI don't think WD has any motivation to increase prices. The point isn't to stop SanDisk from competing with them. They need a SSD product and acquisition is easier for them than developing their own. What I wonder is if WD will continue the green and blue lines. The writing is on the wall for spinning disks. They may reduce the number of HDD models they sell and make SSDs the new green.
- Sophistifunk 11y agoThey probably won't. SanDisk already make the most expensive flash drives, as well as cheaper consumer models. But I have a couple of their top shelf drives, like the "Extreme Pro" USB3 stick. They're stupid fast, and worth every penny, assuming it has a long life.