techreport.com - 3/30/2009
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Despite displaying a lukewarm attitude toward SSDs last year, Western Digital has taken a big step into the market today by acquiring solid-state drive maker SiliconSystems. The $65 million transaction is already complete, and SiliconSystems has become WD's Solid-State Storage business unit.
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bigbruin.com - 3/25/2009
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Western Digital is one of the big names
in hard drives, and one of their latest releases...
puts a much stronger emphasis on the word big. Model number WD20EADS is a 3.5" SATA 3Gbps hard drive from their "eco-friendly" Caviar Green ...
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Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive
hardwarecanucks.com - 4/7/2009
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Manufacturer Page: WD Caviar Black 1 TB SATA
Hard Drives ( WD1001FALS ) Model Number: WD1001FALS TechWiki...
Info: Caviar Black 1TB Price: Click Here to Compare Prices Warranty: 5 years While Solid State Drives are sexy, new and considered high ...
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Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive Review
westerndigital.com - 3/30/2009
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Mar. 30, 2009 -
Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in...
hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, ...
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Western Digital acquires solid-state drive firm
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... and SiliconSystems has become WD's Solid-State Storage business unit. WD says it's purchased a leading player in the embedded SSD market: SiliconSystems' SiliconDrive products are purportedly designed to "meet the high performance, high reliability and multi-year product lifecycle demands of the network-communications, industrial, embedded-computing, medical, military and aerospace markets." The 2002 start-up also holds "extensive intellectual property" for serving those markets. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16660
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