SanDisk, a maker of Solid State Drives (SSD), said on Monday that Vista is not optimized for those kinds of drives, and suitable SSDs won’t be available until late that year or next year. The SanDisk CEO admitted that his company didn’t understand the limitations of Vista.

SSDs are currently available as options for the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.

SandDisk’s CEO, Eli Harari, spoke to the issue at their second quarter conference shout and said that

the design of Vista presents a challenge. “As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications considering Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid-state disk,” he said.

that is due to Vista’s design. “The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,” Mr. Harari continued. “Unfortunately, performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs […]

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