14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, Western Digital announced the buyout of Virident. Now we can tell how much of an impact the former expects from the latter's integration into its activities.
I should probably start by saying that Virident won't be integrated into WD exactly, but into its subsidiary HGST (former Hitachi).
Enterprise-level SSDs will benefit the most, but consumer SSDs will get better too. In fact, WD expected even HDDs to have something to gain.
The worldwide enterprise SSD revenue will reach $7.2 billion / €5.21 billion in 2017, and WD wants a large chunk of that to reach its coffers.
We will probably see some nice, new solid state drives in the next few months and the first quarter of 2014.
Since Virident has means of enabling a better collaboration between SSDs, it can be assumed that bulk orders for WD drives will rise, so the company's goal should be easily met.