Viking enters SSD fray

Viking isn’t some Scandinavian company that makes rock solid vehicles, but is most famous for their range of removable flash storage including CompactFlash and SD memory cards. In a move that sees them diversifying their portfolio, the company has now unveiled 2.5″ solid state disks – also known as SSDs. These new 2.5″ SSDs will target both enterprise and consumer use, where the enterprise version will come with a SCSI 6Gb/s connection, whereas the more docile consumer version will be a regular SATA 3Gb/s drive. Don’t expect these to pop up like mushrooms overnight in notebooks and other devices though, since samples are just starting to be made available to OEMs.