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Headquartered in Fremont, CA, Plextor is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment for professionals, consumers and enterprises. Headquartered in Silicon Valley since 1990, Plextor has introduced generations of award-winning products, including digital video converters and CD-R/RW, DVD±R/RW optical disc drives, and multimedia products. Contact Plextor at www.plextor.com.

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  • editor's comments:- January 2010 - although best known for being a leader in the doomed optical storage market - Plextor announced it would enter the notebook SSD market in Q1 2010 with a new product line based on SSD controllers from Marvell. The company has said it would like to achieve 10% market share in the SSD notebook market. This is driven by the need (common to all late market entrants) to make waves in the SSD Market Bubble

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  • 2010 - 1st Fizz in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in shaping the SSD year ahead.
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  • the Problem with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common applications.

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