Topic summary
SiliconSystems
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Western Digital.
2000s
On January 27, 2009, Western Digital shipped the first 2 TB internal hard disk drive. On March 30, 2009, it entered the solid-state drive market with the acquisition of Siliconsystems, Inc. Its acquisition was unsuccessful, and few years later Western Digital discontinued all solid-state storage products based on Siliconsystems design (SiliconEdge and SiliconDrive families of SSDs and memory cards), but its inventions was used later in development of various other solid-state storage products, with larger developments going on after 2016 acquisition of SanDisk.