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SSDs have been quite the hot topic of late, with conflicting capability usage reports and free-falling (almost) prices being the two angles most commonly yapped about. Now, however, we have a completely different reason to mention ‘em in passing, as SanDisk’s dutiful CEO let loose some questionable comments during its Q2 2008 earnings signal. Noting that Windows Vista would present rare challenges for SSD manufacturers, he stated that “as soon as you get into Vista applications, you start running into very demanding applications considering Vista is not optimized for flash memory

solid state disk.” Furthermore, he proclaimed that the “next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,” and finished things up by asserting that “SSD performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs.” It seems all those statements were just used to deflect blame for it being behind schedule, but we’re a bit curious about how it intends on defending said statements with real-world numbers. Hmm?

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Original post by Darren Murph