“Vista is not Optimized for Flash SSD”

Here is an abstract of what said Eli Harari, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SanDisk, during the company’s 2Q08 conference call:

"Controller technology depends on the application. In very low-end, ultra low-cost PCs, existing controllers can get the job done for 8-, 16-, and 32-gigabyte storage because these are relatively unsophisticated and demanding requirements. As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for Flash memory solid state disk. And the next generation controllers needs to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls. In the enterprise, you have proprietary operating systems, proprietary architectures, and therefore manufacturers, enterprise manufacturers, server manufacturers can take advantage of Flash with existing controllers that have been developed mostly for disk drives."