RiDATA is the latest manufacturer to jump onto the Solid State Disk train after that Samsung long propagated for the new harddrive technology and SanDisk recently launched its own models. RiDATA has announced that it will launch two different SSDs during the second quarter at 16GB and 32GB capacities. They will be of 1.8″ and 2.5″ formats and the units will support both the ATA and IDE interfaces (DigiTimes is a bit illusive here). RiDATA will ship its SSD units both to system builders and the retail market, the 16GB model will cost 199 USD with a 2.5″ format, we think at least, again DigiTimes has managed to confuse us. Anyway, the competition is getting tougher on the SSD market and this should only be beneficial to us consumers.
