News - Plextor gets in on SSDs, launches 64GB and 128GB drives

[HEXUS]

Plextor, best known for its optical disc drives, has made its foray into the Flash storage market with the launch of its first SSDs.

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[shaithis]

Wow, mentioned Plextor to someone recently after having a tidy out in my flat and stumbled across 3 Plextor SCSI CD drives (1 reader, 2 writers)......at one time they were untouchable in the optical drive market but went downhill rapidly when the market switched from SCSI to IDE for some very odd reason.

Will be interesting to see how their resurgence goes with SSDs!!

[TooNice]

Highly regarded, sure, but they were also priced a lot higher than competing drives, especially when other manufacturers decided to leave the SCSI interface in the wake faster processor and perhaps most importantly, coaster prevention technology, in addition to good DAE performance.

Their earlier IDE drives were not poor to be honest, just less outstanding as the technology matured and most drives started performing quite similarly. And in later years they just started re-branding other drives. I've been wondering what they've been doing with their resources all those years TBH.

Are there any other SSD drive in the market using same the controller as this? It's no speed demon in sequential performance, but if the random is good and price attractive, then it could be bring welcome competition to the SSD market. Doesn't look like something that will compete with the top end though.

[kellyharding]

I still have my Plextor CDROM and CDRW drives somewhere, for the machines I still have with scsi (old SGI and Sun boxes). Unbeatable for their reliability I found.