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.
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.
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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