Made in China

[riffraff]

Hello Everyone,

When I received my Memoright drive I was suprised to see that it was Made in Chine. Now I know the ChiComs are very capeable people but they usually just copy and sell at a lower price. They have not been known for producing cutting edge technology unless someone else blazed the trail first. Where were SSD's first manufactured and who(what country) manufactures the major brands right now?

Bester

[iJAC]

Hi riffraff,


This will probably suprise you but this technology was first developed here in the states in 1978 by StorageTek from four former IBM engineers and I think Sun MicroSystems now owns it.. As to who makes the most or is the leader now well that's hard to say for sure. Companies like Intel already have something they call SSD and I would'nt doubt if in the next few years they started to be a major competitor..:)


Here's a info link...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#History_of_the_solid_state_drive

[webmaster]

SSDs have been around for decades. But it is only in 2007 where the prices came down while performance skyrocketed. The Chinese are NOT "me too" in this case. You see, there are only a few NAND Flash chip makers in the world. The most notable is Samsung. Companies such as Memoright, MTRON, Toshiba, and Sandisk all buy these NANDs, but that is only PART of the equation. The other part is the onboard controller. That is what each end-company must develop. That is why a Memoright SSD can write at over 100MB/s while no other SSD can..Even if it has the same NAND flash chips! Other factors go into the design. Does the manufacturer use a lot of low capacity NANDs, or just a few, newer high-capacity NANDs? How does that affect longevity in of the SSD according to their own design? See, there are many things that separate a true SSD from a cheap flash stick...

All these manufacturers are fighting over the same source of NAND chips. That is what keeps the price where it is today. Supply and demand...Regardless of what you thing X GB of NAND flash memory costs. But we can talk pricing in another post. Suffice it to say, we talked to all the SSD makers at CES this year, and the dealer pricing of their PROPOSED SSDs is the same as what we are paying for Memoright and MTRON SSDs...Only, all the new players are playing catch-up and won't hit the current speeds of Memoright and MTRON SSDs anytime soon. And Memoright is distancing themselves from the pack. On Feb 28th (just a week from this writing!) they are shipping the first 64GB 2.5" SSDs that can Read AND WRITE at 120MB/s!!!