When progress forces you to change technologies, you can't always win. But I guess you still have to try.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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Understandable, flash memory is a dead technology that doesn't have any future
Sarcasm aside, this news is absolutely baffling unless they're merely trying to dump the sandisk name and then make their own in-house flash instead for a "clean slate" to the less technically inclined. Which, given how scummy and deceitful they've been over the years, wouldn't surprise me at all.
Flash is the future. HDDs still have the best $/TB now, but that's absolutely not going to be the case forever unless we start seeing collusion where flash and spinning disks "stay in their lane" so to speak with flash continuing to get useless sequential speed increases at the cost of capacity while HDDs stay the course they always have been.
In related news, WD is looking to aquire an incandescent lightbulb factory.
Their shareholders that were asking for this are dumb as fuck. As much as a merger with Kioxia would've sucked even more, at least it would've appeased that crowd that was calling for a spinoff.
Is it? I thought flash was going to be the replacement for hdds?
What's going to be the replacement storage technology?
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Didn't... Didn't it LITERALLY JUST buy a flash memory company???
"Literally"? I'm not sure what you mean.
They bought a flash memory company in 2016. Literally vs figuratively? Not sure what you mean.
You mean merge with kioxia? In this article it says it was rejected
Ah yes buy high sell low.
Anyone know about the actual attrition here? When companies get acquired they usually try to force a bunch of people out that are hard to replace. What intellectual property and manufacturing they can take can is also a big factor.
WDC’s flash is manufactured through a joint venture. Flash-related IP isn’t really at risk of being retained by WDC since it is owned by the JV itself…
A recent Synology DSM update changed from showing WD NVMe drives as "WD WD_ " to now show them as "Sandisk WD_ ".